Sharon Van Etten - Tramp Micachu and the Shapes - Never A.C. Newman - Shut Down the Streets
This is why we're friends
.. and because of that secret pact about not talking ever about the time we accidently killed that child who we both swore was looking at us strange... too strange. I mean we both saw how strange it was, right? It was him or us. Clearly.
[spoiler=Joint Homicide Spoiler Alert].. and because of that secret pact about not talking ever about the time we accidently killed that child who we both swore was looking at us strange... too strange. I mean we both saw how strange it was, right? It was him or us. Clearly.[/spoiler]
I didn't listen to it on porpoise when it was released because I read about it and realized that Krug has a backing band on this one, which essentially eliminates the one thing that I find most interesting about Moonface. On the previous two records, Krug has confined himself to an extremely limited sound palette (chuned percussion on Dreamland, synth organ on Organ Music), and what was exciting about them was the depth and subtlety that emerged from those palettes in the absence of anything else.
I didn't buy the new one because I Dr. Garbanzoured with a backing band it would just sound like another Sunset Rubdown record, about which I can give no shits. If I'm being entirely honest, I would remain uninterested if the Friendly Deester hadn't just sounded excited about it.
It's nothing like Sunset Rubdown. To be honest, it sounds like exactly what it says it is - Moonface songs, spacious, deliberate, lots of room to breathe, abbreviated by really incredible post-rock arrangements. It's really good.
I don't doubt it. Honestly I don't remember anyone saying peep about it since it was released. A rec from drew and Friendly D is good enough for me; I'm on it.
Yeah that's true, nobody's really mentioned it. Enjoy.
Yeah it's pretty damn good. What I love about it most is that in a blink of an eye Spencer Krug has made himself sound like he's always been amongst the gods on Music Mt. Olympia opposed to a weird art kid (which is still cool, you guys!) looking up from below. The only way I can really describe it is that there is a confidence and authority in both the music and his voice that have never even reared their heads for a second on his other stuff.
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