Monthly Archives: June 2012

Fear Fun

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Band: Father John Misty
Album: Fear Fun
Best song: “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” is the best song on the album.
Worst song: “Only Son of the Ladiesman” is kind of hokey.

I was kind of a lame-comer to the Fleet Foxes. Like so many experiences, the second Fleet Foxes record really hit me at a time when I was very vulnerable to such things. As such, “Montezuma” became the theme, essentially, for my 30 years project. I can understand why people don’t like Fleet Foxes, but that record really was important to me. Continue reading →

South of Salem

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Band: Witch Mountain
Album: South of Salem
Best song: “End Game” is amazing. What a song.
Worst song: “Hare’s State,” while a pretty good song, is far too long.

The more I get back into the music thing, the more I find myself exploring the ins and outs of genre stuff. Often in harder music, that means trudging through a lot of garbage that’s hard for the sake of hard or dissonantly obnoxious. Some stuff is sparse to the point of boring (Earth, Boris), fit for certain moods and certain places. Some stuff is obnoxious and nearly unlistenable (an awful lot of Norwegian black metal). Continue reading →

TNT

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Band: Tortoise
Album: TNT
Best song: Few things beat the album’s title track. “The Suspension Bridge at Iguazú Falls” is magnificient
Worst song: “Everglade” is the weakest song on a very strong album.

I’ve written before about the nature of love and the import of personal growth within relationships. Indeed, one of the largest fallacies of modern romantic thought is that a relationship is failed unless someone ends up six feet under. It goes against the common trope of a relationship being a “waste of time” if it ends in divorce or another breakup of some sort. Continue reading →