Five Songs, 1/17/2022
Mary Wells, "You Beat Me To The Punch" Lots of Mary Wells recently, which is OK by me! Olivia Tremor Control, "The Opera House" Music From The Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle is one of the key documents of...
Mary Wells, "You Beat Me To The Punch" Lots of Mary Wells recently, which is OK by me! Olivia Tremor Control, "The Opera House" Music From The Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle is one of the key documents of...
The Ocean, "Bathyalpelagic I: Impasses" You know, I think the zone is actually bathypelagic, not bathyalpelagic. Come on The Ocean, get your shit together! Claw Hammer, "Succotash" Jon Wahl really has one of the unique voices in rock, and certainly in...
Feels like this month is dragging for these entries. Usually I can bang these things out without too much trouble (and you can tell the effort I put into them!), but it seems like it's just painful so far this year. Alas. Well,...
Atmosphere, "Lovelife" A thing that strikes me about listening to early Atmosphere (this is from their second album, 2002's God Loves Ugly) is how young Slug sounds on these tracks. He still sounds like the same person later, but there'...
Sicko, "An Indie Rock Daydream" We all have those bands that are special to us. We discovered them on our own, at the exact right time in our lives, and that connection carries them with us always. Sicko is one of those special...