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November 2, 2003 at 7:56:00 PM CET [philosophy] November 2, 2003 at 7:56:00 PM CET Guy Debord <a href="www.google.com"guy+debord+is"">is
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P.S. Online: the 221 pieces (aphorisms?, mini-essays?, theses?, thoughts?) of Guy Debord's chef d'œuvre La Société du Spectacle (The Society of the Spectacle) link (4 comments) ... comment [music, albums] November 2, 2003 at 6:54:00 PM CET Reissue of the year? 1988's Prairie School Freakout by the criminally underrated and unsuccessful Eleventh Dream Day has been re-released by Thrill Jockey. I have just been listening to the 14 thirty second snippets over at Amazon and I must say that this guitar freakout(!) album which makes me think of Yo La Tengo's folkier side, Sonic Youth's experimentalism and Crazy Horse's guitar sound immediately jumped on top of my wishlist and I believe every word of the glowing Dusted Magazine review: For lovers of guitar-heavy indie rock, listening to Prairie School Freakout for the first time is somewhat akin to discovering some vintage porn in your dad’s closet. ...
The album’s opening track, “Watching Candles Burn”, sums up the band’s approach: dueling guitars that wildly alternate between a countryish strum and noisy, half-improvised solos; Rick Rizzo’s amelodic, almost aggressive singing; a general sense of freewheeling, youthful energy. ... ... the album’s closer, “Go.” A tumultuous, far-ranging guitar workout, the song handles dense nests of sound delicately and subtly, hinting at the gracefully complex playing that would characterize their later work. Powerful as many of the songs are on Prairie School Freakout are, there is a mastery of dynamics and tone on this song that goes far beyond the rest of the album. The vocals, traded urgently between Bean and Rizzo, reach a frenetic, unsteady wail above warbling feedback and stabbing guitar riffs. At times quiet and retreating, at others aggressive and chaotic, the song never loses its focus or its sense of immediacy, managing to sound beautiful and slightly scary at the same time. link (2 comments) ... comment [music, songs] November 2, 2003 at 5:25:00 PM CET Swell - Next to Nothing One of the outstanding songs on the new Swell (French fan site) album Whenever You're Ready. The album is pretty good though a tad too long. A return to form after the disappointing last record, 2001's Everybody Wants to Know which was basically David Freel solo on guitar and electronic devices. For those who know nothing about Swell their music could be best described as westcoast guitar pop psychedelia in the tradition of Dream Syndicate with a spacy cinematic component. Next to Nothing (mp3) has Swell's typical warm and wistful acoustic guitar sound which always makes me think of the San Fransico fog with the sun rays slowly piercing through it. On top of that is a dreamy keyboard line and Freel's slightly raspy baritone which reconnects the song to the earth. Sean Kirkpatrick who lives in Santa Barbara now is back on drums and is also responsible for the lush CD artwork always close to postcard/poster kitsch but still gorgeous. David Freel sings here in a duet with Cory Sipper, a folkish singer/songwriter from Santa Barbara. Considering that I am not a fan of duets I find this one works amazingly well. link (no comments) ... comment [music, albums] November 2, 2003 at 1:15:00 PM CET New Yo La Tengo EP The world's most eclectic rock band has a new maxi out. Apparently like on the last tour the new versions of the first three songs which are from the mellow Summer Sun are rocking quite hard. From the latest Aquarius newsletter: YO LA TENGO "Today Is The Day!" (Matador) cd ep/12" 5.98/5.98
Yo La Tengo are like the Energizer bunnies
of indie-rock, aren't they? There's always a new
album or ep and, not only that, it's always
usually pretty good. So, get set, here's a fine
new six-song ep to add to your collection. The
first three tracks are derived from the sessions
for YLT's Summer Sun album that came out earlier
this year. You get a more 'rock' version of
"Today Is The Day" (which appeared on Summer Sun
in a milder version) along with two other tracks
that were cut from Summer Sun 'cause they also
just rocked too hard, which didn't quite fit with
the rest of that album's material. But they sound
great here. Then, getting away from the rock,
there's also a lovely Georgia-sung cover version
of "Needle Of Death" by British folk guitarist
Bert Jansch, a previously-unreleased mellow
instrumental groover called "Dr. Crash", and a
live-on-the-radio acoustic take on "Cherry
Chapstick" from YLT's And Then Nothing Turned
Itself Inside-Out. Real nice. Oh, and downtown
NYC free jazz bassist/big shot William Parker
shows up on one track, playing not bass but
double reed horn, by the way.
P.S. Nice extensive review of Today Is the Day in Dusted Magazine. link (no comments) ... comment |
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