The dramatic and incredibly brief conclusion to the In Heaven dialectic.
Sarah went to the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in Asbury Park, New Jersey last weekend and took some photos. The festival was curated by Portishead who played two shows, closing out both Saturday and Sunday nights in the Asbury Park convention center. Highlights included a Q&A session between the crowd and Shellac, Flavor Flav’s outfit … Continue reading
In Heaven is an album by a band still figuring out what it wants to sound like. Brandon would like to suggest “awesome.” They should go for “awesome.”
On the song “Saturday Sunday,” lead singer Andrea Estella and guitarist Eric Cardona trade back and forth in the refrain, “Saturday.” “No, Sunday.” Natalie would like to offer a third option: “Not on this album.” She then wonders if she’s narrow-minded because she can’t totally get into the album’s nu-wave spaghetti-western dance tracks.
Brandon writes to Natalie about Long Island quintent, Twin Sister’s debut LP, In Heaven, which just came out on Domino Records. It’s a confidently playful album that may or may not be sequenced in pairs, and one that covers a broad tableaux, from Blondie’s nu-wave, to loungey R&B, to spaghetti-western. That’s right, you heard me. … Continue reading
In this corner, we have Chris Mollica, devoted Wilco fan, lover of their eighth album, The Whole Love. And in the other corner we have Brandon Hall, lover of sports analogies, fan of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, like just about everyone else, who calls The Whole Love “country rock on Prozac,” before proceeding to say much … Continue reading