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May 12, 2014 Leave a Comment
Part 5 of 12 Albums That Stuck With Me
Warning: turn down your speakers the first time you listen to this album. It begins with a loud cymbal crash, followed by four bars of nothing but drum. Piano and guitar join in from there, soon enhanced by strings from the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.
Piano and strings are hardly unheard of on rock albums, but Punches makes particularly adept use of them. It also manages to incorporate the lead singer’s frequent strong exhalations effectively and is the only winner ever of the jaQ Andrews Best Use of Sleigh Bells to Unify an Album Award. (The cash prize has already been donated to charity.)
April 14, 2014 Leave a Comment
Part 4 of 12 Albums That Stuck With Me
There are a lot of drum machines and synthesized instruments on this album. Those things were a lot more obvious in 1990. Wow. Read more of this post
March 10, 2014 Leave a Comment
Part 3 of 12 Albums That Stuck With Me
In this very special edition of Beating a Dead Facebook Trend Over the Course of a Year but It’ll Probably Come Around Again So It’s Fine, we discuss a band who happens to have a new album out. TV en Français, released last week, is a long way from 2006’s With Love and Squalor, but the shift in tone had already happened in the intervening two releases, Brain Thrust Mastery and Barbara.
February 26, 2014 2 Comments
Pictured: subtlety.
I’m going to be on the radio for a few seconds today.