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I Need Some Commas Like A Run-On Sentence

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Published: September 6, 2024 14:28

Sophie Hunter “Cha Cha” Last night I saw Sophie Hunter perform as an opening act for Madelline at the Sultan Room in Bushwick with zero awareness of who she was or what kind of music she’d be performing. I kinda figured it would be a singer-songwriter sort…

Speak To The Queen In Me

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Published: September 5, 2024 21:09

Muni Long “Make Me Forget” Muni Long opens “Make Me Forget” by singing “when the one that I’m with ain’t the one that I want,” which sets up an expectation that you’re about to hear a song about unrequited love or being generally romantically dissatisfied.…

No Bandwidth

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Published: September 4, 2024 19:37

Fake Fruit “Well Song” The guitar parts in “Well Song” are frazzled but not quite frantic, which is well suited to lyrics about feeling exhausted and uninspired. I like how in the verses the higher-pitched and faster guitar part on the left side of the…

Tragic Mysteries

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Published: August 29, 2024 20:57

Geneva Jacuzzi “Laps of Luxury” “Laps of Luxury” sounds like vintage top-shelf 80s synth-pop – the programming is very Depeche Mode, the vocal melody more along the lines of Pet Shop Boys, the grim but debauched atmosphere closer to Skinny Puppy. Geneva…

The Only One Who Can See Me Is Me

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Published: August 27, 2024 20:52

JPEGMAFIA “Either On or Off the Drugs” There’s countless rap songs in which rappers tell you how great they are, how they’re built different, that they have a vision that can’t be held back. It’s a central trope of the genre, and a lot of the time it’s…

That Ain’t Peace And That Ain’t Free

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Published: August 26, 2024 20:38

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard “Daily Blues” I was watching an archive of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s random all-acoustic show in Detroit from this weekend and at one point when they were introducing “Minimum Brain Size,” one of them – I think…

Is It The Future Or Past Tomorrow?

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Published: August 23, 2024 02:15

Flying Lotus “Garmonbozia” I’m sure a lot of people would be pretty excited for all the Twin Peaks references in this new Flying Lotus song, but my interest is mainly in the track’s weird, sluggish energy. The keyboard and drum machines sounds feel…

God, I Miss The Old Me

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Published: August 17, 2024 18:22

Zach Bryan “The Way Back” The character Zach Bryan is singing about in “The Way Back” is a classic fuck up – serious substance abuse issues, broken marriage, abandoned family, apparently a big fan of The Killers. He’s tremendously empathetic towards this…

Up And Elated

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Published: August 15, 2024 20:27

Ginger Root “No Problems” Cameron Lew is a gleeful maximalist, pulling from Japanese City Pop, 70s McCartney and Electric Light Orchestra, 80s Sophisti-pop, and 90s Shibuya-kei to build songs that are dense with musical detail but feel light and fizzy. It…

We’re All Barely Real

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Published: August 14, 2024 19:06

Fievel Is Glauque “As Above So Below” The first time I wrote about Fievel Is Glauque a couple years ago I described them as an “intriguing common ground between Gaucho-era Steely Dan, Stereolab, and Tom Jobim,” and that’s even more true now that they’ve…