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TYCHO – Dive (Part 2)
Zach takes Tycho apart piece by piece like a fine clock maker, examining what exactly makes the album tick and struggling with whether or not what he’s doing is really worth the time it’s taking to do it. Like his graphic design work as ISO50, Zach says Tycho’s music is pretty and interesting but hardly … Continue reading
TYCHO – Dive (Part 1)
Looking for music to make whoopee to? Ghostly International’s Scott Hansen has you covered with his second LP, Dive, under the Tycho moniker. André Salas rushes to avoid the Wrath of Brandon in analyzing Dive’s nostalgic allusions to Boards of Canada and Tangerine Dream in this letter to Zach Evans.
ATLAS SOUND – Parallax (Pts 1-4)
Bradford Cox’s Deerhunter side/solo-project, Atlas Sound’s third official LP, Parallax hits the shelves tomorrow. Everyone is really excited about it. Everyone except Brandon and Chris. The two of them got together this week to try to figure out what the big deal was. Their conclusion was about as unsatisfying as every Bradford Cox album. (Which … Continue reading
ATLAS SOUND – Parallax (Part 4)
Bradford Cox is getting creepily serendipitous. He puts himself on Chris’s car stereo just in time for Chris’s response, and guides Chris and Brandon to the same lyric by sheer metaphysical willpower. That lyric: “Gave me bruises after the first time.” Spooky. Get out of our heads, Cox!
ATLAS SOUND – Parallax (Part 3)
Parallax refers to the displacement or difference in the perceived position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight. Clearly Chris and Brandon are looking at Parallax from a different angle than seemingly everyone else. Do I hear science experiment!? Not really. Just another bubble Brandon’s trying to burst.
ATLAS SOUND – Parallax (Part 2)
So…Bradford Cox is a mensch. That doesn’t mean his music is memorable, but, man does he make a great first impression. Chris thinks Cox is “one of the pure musicians out there, just making as much music as he can for the sake of music.” Completely forgettable music.
ATLAS SOUND – Parallax (Part 1)
Bradford Cox’s Deerhunter side/solo-project, Atlas Sound’s third official LP, Parallax hits the shelves tomorrow. Everyone is really excited about it. Everyone except Brandon. And he can’t figure out exactly why. This letter goes out to Chris Atto.
METALLICA and LOU REED – Lulu (Pts 1-4)
So, you’ve probably heard. Metallica and Lou Reed ran into one another in a dark alley of Hell and made a Doctor-Moreau-level abomination called Lulu that’s pretty much equally embarrassing for everyone involved – the players and the listener alike. Brandon pulls out Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp” to figure out if Lulu qualifies. Meanwhile, … Continue reading
METALLICA and LOU REED – Lulu (Part 4)
Hide yo koalas. It’s a battle between Metal Machine Music and a bloviating glittery piñata of grotesquery with a Tabasco enema.
METALLICA and LOU REED – Lulu (Part 3)
Now this is what I call a tangent! We came to talk about Loutallica’s Lulu and ended up with our own little polemic about Camp. By the end of this dialectic, you won’t even need to read Sontag’s “Notes on Camp” because Jenn and Brandon will have transcribed the whole damn thing. But hey, at … Continue reading
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