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The Wednesday Watch #1 – Comebacks, nostalgia, and the greater power
The Wednesday Watch is Orestes P. Xistos’ weekly column. We do not sanction his buffoonery, but he owns a dossier full of incriminating evidence, so we must abide with His Plushy Madness. Hullo, hullo, hullo, govnahs and govlasses, it is I, Orestes P. Xistos, free again to roam the streets, jennels (or ginnels), deciding unilaterally…
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Review: Spook Muziek – Pop Culture
Rain accumulates on the window sill. It’s the wettest July in Mexico’s recent history. A thousand dead leaves block the neighbour’s gutter. The tea mug still smoulders away, the aroma of cheap imitation Earl Grey piss, the only available “tea” available in this coffee-addicted place. “How to describe Spook Muziek?” I ask myself, avoiding taking…
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A eulogy for hope.
January 2010. Sleet and half-melted snow make the sharp-slanted streets of Sheffield, the hilliest town I’ve lived in, impossible to navigate. No grip at all with cheap Topshop Chuck Taylor knockoffs. Still, the O2 Academy brings some relief. As I’ve mentioned before, I hold that night of January 2010 dear to my heart, as it…
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The Farewell State – Dial Everything
Once you reach a certain age, time becomes…strange. We are taught ad infinitum that time goes on our independent variable axis, and its scale remains equidistant. But again, after you hit forty, it becomes more like one of those orange and white logarithmic paper situations. Dial Everything is The Farewell State newest album. It’s a…
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Live review: Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago
Day one An empty Union Park under the unforgiving scorching sun. A chorus of cicadas, as loud as vuvuzelas in a world cup match. Random guitar notes start to gel together and it’s Black Duck, offering relief to the few that arrived early. Chill improvisational experimental music that offers a groove, but not for long.…
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Listen to: Echodrone – Tranquility / This is when
SHUGETORONIKA FOR ONE AND ALL
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Listen to: New Ghost – Over
Meandering review of New Ghost’s Over.
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Review: The Dramatic Lovers – Hiatus EP
It’s often said that burnout can be an unavoidable calamity for creative endeavours. Burnout is perpetual motionless machine, frustration feeds an unmovable pen, which feeds procrastination, which exacerbates frustration. Blank pages beget a drought of thoughts. Milwaukee’s The Dramatic Lovers pierce through that gray desolation with the Hiatus EP, led by Billy Seidel’s haunting but…
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Review: Mock Tudors – I am Bozo
I have a recurring dream. A clown wearing a teal scarf chases me through dark ginnels. The half-rotten leaves covering the ground offer no footing at all and the clown eventually catches me. Then it starts playing a bass solo. That’s all well and good, but outside of the clown-motif, it has nothing to do…
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Wake up to Vast Robot Armies – Like a bug
The fierce bass line. A very The Kinks – like keyboard groove. Then an inevitable comedown. Like a bug, Vast Robot Armies brand new single, swarms your emotions, creating an almost sensurround atmosphere that intertwines longing with resignment. Acquiesce through past experiences, embrace the pop nature deep in our alveoli, and with each exhale, enjoy…
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