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Anatomy of a Tracklist: Love: Forever Changes
3+ hour, 39+ min ago (140+ words) 1. "Alone Again Or" 2. "A House Is Not a Motel" 4. "The Daily Planet" 6. "The Red Telephone" 7. "Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hillsdale" 8. "Live and Let Live" 9. "The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This…...
Fucked Up: Grass Can Move Stones Part 1: Year of the Goat
3+ hour, 41+ min ago (410+ words) Fucked Up: Grass Can Move Stones Part 1: Year of the Goat'Spectrum Culture Most of the Zodiac series has been 12" releases of lengthy songs, often approaching the half-hour mark. Year of the Goat continues this tradition, giving two songs: "Long Ago…...
The Cribs: Selling a Vibe
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (471+ words) The Cribs: Selling a Vibe'Spectrum Culture The changes comes through an increased poppiness to their sound. The band's always been able to find a good melody, but they've sometimes used a more lo-fi production or a looser approach. Their ability…...
Praed Orchestra: The Dictionary of Lost Meaning
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (571+ words) Occupying the interzone between creativity, criticism and academic writing, J. Simpson idealistically believes that great art makes the world a better place. Specializing in the "dark," experimental, surreal and strange, he believes there's more to life than chasing profits. He is…...
Dry Cleaning: Secret Love
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (836+ words) Dry Cleaning: Secret Love'Spectrum Culture Neither of those is a particularly novel ingredient, of course. Tom Dowse's guitar work largely recalls bands like Magazine and Gang of Four, although he displays a love of long, knotted lead passages that feel…...
Five Years Later: The Best Music of 2020
1+ week, 2+ day ago (414+ words) Five years is an eternity in the life of a record. Especially now that the pandemic has altered our perception of time, 2020 seems like forever ago. So much has happened since then, not to mention a pandemic. Set My Heart…...
Five Years Later: The Best Films of 2020
1+ week, 3+ day ago (297+ words) The events of Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always could have occurred yesterday. Two teenage girls secretly board a bus from rural Pennsylvania to New York City; one of them is pregnant, and she has to travel for an abortion....