Have you seen that current Drums video Scutter?
It's unbelievable.
It's unbelievable.
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I belive that music in the long run can straighten out most things
There are too many bands that act lame
Sound tame
I believe In Electrelane
Over here it's new, it's now, it's you, it's clean
The beard and lipstick scene
So look beyond Big brother, gossip culture,
So bored of stupidity
The myth of common sense
I believe in Donovan over Dylan
In love over cynicism
Oh, ??????????
so there
ah it's gas. You know when people talk about 'americans' who 'don't get' the Smiths or Joy Division and do it all wrong?
It's like that (but with, I dunno, new pop?) .
I think it's supposed to look like some kind of 'Working Men's Club' in Manchester or something
ps. ' '
blah blah blah the entirety of Contra summed up in a single suggestive image that serves as a dartboard for our conflicted feelings about class and commodities blah blah blah
if i'm being honest I actually like this kind of artwork, it's a massive improvement over the bollocksy rock stuff that was around a few years ago
AKA
I'm just not sure if I trust it.
I DON'T TRUST INDIE ROCK.
Early 90's sounding - checkIt's almost as though Anderson snoozed her way through the past decade and is picking up threads that have mostly lain dormant since the early-to-mid 1990s
Very basic entry-level reference to '60's girl groups' (whatever that means) - checkIt dwells in the same kind of unsettling territory as Goffin/King's "He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)" and the bare-bones musical arrangement heightens the severity of the message just as Phil Spector's production did on the Crystals' song.
Mention of beaches/ sunny nostalgia - check"California" is among Anderson's best works, a stream-of-consciousness rant about displacement and alienation set to a musical backing that feels like civilization collapsing around her. "California" shows off her enviable talent for finding a comfortable place where big-topic sloganeering and personal tales can coexist. It's that sweat-soaked head-rush of repulsion, sadness, anxiety, and nostalgia you get when you feel the tug of home.
Sonic Youth - checkComparisons can certainly be drawn to artists such as Patti Smith or Cat Power, and her dry, deadpan delivery occasionally orbits the same sphere as Kim Gordon's vocal work with Sonic Youth
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