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Five Songs, 6/10/2022

Bedhead, "Haywire" Bedhead is the musical equivalent of a weighted blanket. Lambchop, "The Gusher" Lambchop is, uh, a velvet smoking jacket, a faded photo of your grandparents, a mostly empty bottle of rye, and a ticket stub for a concert that...

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Five Songs, 3/7/2022

Spawn of Possession, "Where Angels Go Demons Follow" I dunno, the vocals on this track are really amusing me tonight. Something about the cadence here is extra ridiculous. Negativland, "Cityman" Negativland, in their roles as cultural and social critics, were usually...

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Five Songs, 1/14/2022

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'...

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Five Songs, 12/5/2021

PJ Harvey, "My Beautiful Leah" Is This Desire? is the album that really completed PJ Harvey's transition from kickass rock artist to just plain ol' kickass artist. Yeah, broadly, this is still a rock record, but she started doing so...