Archive for the ‘2012’ Category
A bot to Break my mind!
Breakbot’s 2012 record By Your Side was one of my favorite end-of-year discoveries, perhaps because it so fully embraced (what I think is some of) the best of post-modern pop shamelessness. Indeed, if pop’s post-modernity is one where the entire western recorded/production canon of 20th Century is available (and acceptable) for mass repackaging in the […]
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I Bet on Dinosaur Jr.
The J. Mascis Attack continued strong in 2012 with the album I Bet on Sky. The bizarre thing looking at music influenced by their peers, it seems no one has really been able improve on the Dinosaur Jr. sound. Like the weird taste in the water at your aunt’s house, these guys’ distinctive tinge lingers […]
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Music Noir
Flying under most people’s radars this year was another 60s-beholden effort by Manchester’s Jim Noir. The record, Jimmy’s Show, plays to Noir’s strengths- clean production, folky acoustics, crisp electrics, relaxed Kinks-styled melodies. Whereas the previous self-titled record (Jim Noir) featured slightly more contemporary Super Furry Animals-esque takes on the classic pop canon with numbers such […]
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Fagennaboutit!
Donald Fagen, one-half of the Steely Dan duo, has a new collection of songs just out! If you’re like me, you love the ‘Dan and you’re aware that Fagen’s solo work has been well regarded, but you’ve stayed away. Right? Okay, so just listen to this. From the bass that brings in “I’m Not the […]
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Cody ChesnuTT has returned at long last with more Headphone Masterpieces… (After 10 years, one wouldn’t be called nuTTs for thinking Cody had disappeared “for-ev-vor”.) The new record Landing on a Hundred isn’t, however, a return to the lo-fi mix of soul and funky folk that the preceding record was (and if you were hoping […]
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