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Brandon Hall
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
METALLICA and LOU REED – Lulu (Part 2)
Did you know that sex and death are the only subjects seriously interesting to an adult? We have Yeats to thank for that insight. That’s right. Jenn Lao is talking fucking Yeats in this discussion of Loutallica’s Lulu. Other guest appearances include Franz Kafka, Lady Gaga, and I Heart Huckabees. Brandon even chimes in for … Continue reading
METALLICA and LOU REED – Lulu (Part 1)
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 tries to figure out if the wretchedness of this album may have been intentional. … Continue reading
TWIN SISTER – In Heaven (Pts 1-4)
Brandon and Natalie discuss 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. Or is it James Bond? Can that be a … Continue reading
TWIN SISTER – In Heaven (Part 4)
The dramatic and incredibly brief conclusion to the In Heaven dialectic.
TWIN SISTER – In Heaven (Part 3)
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.”
TWIN SISTER – In Heaven (Part 2)
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.
TWIN SISTER – In Heaven (Part 1)
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
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