Monthly Archives: May 2010

roky erikson with okkervil river: true love cast out all evil (chemikal underground)

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consider this a sloughing off of old skin. a way of looking forward by looking back, of saying this is who i am, but no more. it is not a comeback. erickson didn’t stop writing as much as he disintegrated, dissipated into the holes in his head. while the rubin produced johnny cash records slipped [...]

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cocorosie: grey oceans (sub pop)

3 Comments Posted by on 05/05/2010

it’s all in the nearly-glimpsed and maybe-imagined, the snatches of sound through next door walls, the dusk/dawn uncertain certainty of half-asleep and half-awake, the aimless chitter chatter of made-up kid stories. call them naifish if you will, pejoratively or not, but child-like approximates what cocorosie are, musically at least. the name, the voices, the toys [...]

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sloath: sloath (riot season)

2 Comments Posted by on 03/05/2010

sweet lysergic lord this shit is heavier than pig champion’s coffin. three tracks of tectonic plate shift articulated by ten legs of teetering thuggery. pushers of death-row inertia, of death-rattle anticipation. feels like the fear of falling, of collapse. let’s call it glacially paced, ponderous; rewarding patience with a warm bongwater bath; rewarding patience with [...]

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