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My Life in Headphones: I Break Horses - Hearts
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My Life in Headphones. Thursday, August 2, 2012. I Break Horses - Hearts. I'm sure many people think the dreamy side of Scandanavia has been staked unequivocally by The Ravonettes. The duo's debut album, Hearts. Floats just above the surface. Half the time it's too difficult to tell what she's singing - her low, hushed murmurs only reveal a few words in each line. It's almost as if Linden. Is talking in her sleep, recalling to herself more than anyone else. My personal favorite of all the songs on Hearts.
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My Life in Headphones: Truth in Genres: Shoegaze/Dream Pop
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My Life in Headphones. Wednesday, December 19, 2012. Truth in Genres: Shoegaze/Dream Pop. As I take a bite out of some of the select genres, their subsets, their derivatives, their god-genres, etc that I'm intrigued by, my feelings on the whole system of music identification will be made clear. Hopefully, these feelings will be refined into an accurate statement that articulates my simultaneous disdain and embrace of genres as avenues in discussing music. Jesus and Mary Chain. The '90s saw a steep declin...
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My Life in Headphones: Julia Holter - Ekstasis
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My Life in Headphones. Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Julia Holter - Ekstasis. Amazon is kind of like that drunk friend whose waaaaaay too into music, tossing suggestions at you with only the vaguest of guidelines and a misguided sense of altruism. They know about so much music at once, that any suggestions are destined to be too broad to make much sense. A little sense, but not much. Oh, you like the Pretenders. You might like Aerosmith. Too Oh, you like Aphex Twin. You might like Slipknot. In a sense, Holter.
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My Life in Headphones: Clinic - Walking With Thee
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My Life in Headphones. Sunday, August 26, 2012. Clinic - Walking With Thee. Before their stunted growth in the mid-2000s, Clinic. Was a swatch - turning from glib folk tale, to bittersweet eulogy, to cheeky social commentary - Walking With Thee. Presents a distinctly bizarre winter. Aside from the opening track, "Harmony", the album is chalked full of revolving-door lyrics that make pinning down a respectable interpretation difficult. On "Harmony", singer Ade Blackburn. After writing all of this about th...
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My Life in Headphones: December 2011
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My Life in Headphones. Monday, December 12, 2011. Television - Marquee Moon. Is one of the biggest pre-cum albums of all time. After just four songs, Television. I've had Marquee Moon. Now I'm stuck with children I'm extremely proud of and illegitimate run-off that I'd just as soon put up for adoption. The first half of Marquee Moon. And then, it's spent. "Elevation" is a deflated counterpoint to "Marquee Moon". It comes on so sluggish and weak, it's hard to believe you're still even listening to...It's ...
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My Life in Headphones: November 2012
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My Life in Headphones. Thursday, November 8, 2012. Sleep Over - Forever. But when it does happen - oh man - it's like that rocket hit a snow-packed mountain and the ensuing avalanche is my adoration - tumbling down, destroying all the cabins and snowboarders of doubt in it's path. Such an avalanche occurred when I listened to the cacophonous ghost that is Sleep Over. S debut, Forever. The brainchild behind such a plume of mystifying ecstasy is Stephanie Franciotti. But this spectral corpse isn't all tran...
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My Life in Headphones: March 2012
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My Life in Headphones. Thursday, March 8, 2012. Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream. When you think about the world of down and dirty classic punk, you think of bands like The Sex Pistols. The Cramps, The Slits, The Clash, Iggy and the Stooges. And so on. You don't necessarily think of Siouxsie and the Banshees. In 1978, a vividly ferocious debut album that personifies everything I've come to love about punk rock and NONE of what I hate about it. For me, The Scream. Is a tangible summation of the grit...
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My Life in Headphones: December 2012
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My Life in Headphones. Wednesday, December 19, 2012. Truth in Genres: Shoegaze/Dream Pop. As I take a bite out of some of the select genres, their subsets, their derivatives, their god-genres, etc that I'm intrigued by, my feelings on the whole system of music identification will be made clear. Hopefully, these feelings will be refined into an accurate statement that articulates my simultaneous disdain and embrace of genres as avenues in discussing music. Jesus and Mary Chain. The '90s saw a steep declin...
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My Life in Headphones: August 2012
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My Life in Headphones. Sunday, August 26, 2012. Clinic - Walking With Thee. Before their stunted growth in the mid-2000s, Clinic. Was a swatch - turning from glib folk tale, to bittersweet eulogy, to cheeky social commentary - Walking With Thee. Presents a distinctly bizarre winter. Aside from the opening track, "Harmony", the album is chalked full of revolving-door lyrics that make pinning down a respectable interpretation difficult. On "Harmony", singer Ade Blackburn. After writing all of this about th...
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My Life in Headphones: February 2012
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My Life in Headphones. Thursday, February 23, 2012. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake. I have had a long-time crush on PJ Harvey. And her music. In fact, once I get started, it's hard for me to shut the fuck up about how wonderful she is. The reasons PJ. It's not to say, in actuality, she's perfect and I just gobble up anything she dishes out, however. I've never quite understood the major wank-fest behind her third album, To Bring You My Love. S work with John Parish. Is the downtrodden, wilting countess, s...