Friday, 16 April 2010
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
DADDY'S GONE, DEMO VERSION
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is quite a demoralizing thing to listen to, because it's actually really good - an old-school magic moment coming out of nowhere.
Sadly, it didn't have a space to exist in, no oxygen.
is quite a demoralizing thing to listen to, because it's actually really good - an old-school magic moment coming out of nowhere.
Sadly, it didn't have a space to exist in, no oxygen.
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Monday, 12 April 2010
TWO INTERESTING PITCHFORK ARTICLES
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One by Marc Hogan on government funding for music outside the US, underlining that it pays to be subtle when talking about this issue in international terms. Hogan is canny not to fall into a "grass is always greener" trap - he's right to point to a decline in state support for music in the UK over the past two decades. It was also interesting (not to mention encouraging) to hear from Chemikal Underground's Stewart Henderson about the more positive climate in Scotland. Having said that, the "leisure and tourism" frame for the Scottish story is depressing, and more to the point, doesn't seem to have actually led to any particularly interesting leftfield bands emerging north of the border in recent memory. The View, anyone?
Tom Ewing's Poptimist post on "nudging" was crazy-baffling. A "gameification" of everyday life? "If it gets more people listening to music, then what's the harm"?! I just cannot see any point in more of these realpolitik, Capitalist Realist, let's work with a system we don't have any hope of changing-style arguments.
One by Marc Hogan on government funding for music outside the US, underlining that it pays to be subtle when talking about this issue in international terms. Hogan is canny not to fall into a "grass is always greener" trap - he's right to point to a decline in state support for music in the UK over the past two decades. It was also interesting (not to mention encouraging) to hear from Chemikal Underground's Stewart Henderson about the more positive climate in Scotland. Having said that, the "leisure and tourism" frame for the Scottish story is depressing, and more to the point, doesn't seem to have actually led to any particularly interesting leftfield bands emerging north of the border in recent memory. The View, anyone?
Tom Ewing's Poptimist post on "nudging" was crazy-baffling. A "gameification" of everyday life? "If it gets more people listening to music, then what's the harm"?! I just cannot see any point in more of these realpolitik, Capitalist Realist, let's work with a system we don't have any hope of changing-style arguments.
Monday, 5 April 2010
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
ME, FEB 1984; IONA, AUG 1985.
Throughout my first year
all I saw was a Rothko canvas -
red blocks teeming under eyelids,
soundtrack of earth churning.
When my sister happened
it was just about the most amount of light you can imagine.
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
'FIREFLIES' BY OWL CITY
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An astonishing work.
There's something so humanistic and resolute about a flattened 7th chord in a major key (Mixolydian mode?).
Indomitable is the word I'm grasping for, perhaps.
"I'd like to make myself believe / that planet earth turns slowly": exquisite, with a melody to match.
An astonishing work.
There's something so humanistic and resolute about a flattened 7th chord in a major key (Mixolydian mode?).
Indomitable is the word I'm grasping for, perhaps.
"I'd like to make myself believe / that planet earth turns slowly": exquisite, with a melody to match.
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