In my brain, “To Forgive” totally works as a sinister slow jam. Can I get The-Dream on this? Or Dawn Richard?
My obsession with John Grant’s rolling bass vocals has apparently clouded my newfound love for the arrangements on this album. “Drug” is downright Baroque-ian and smolders like the embers of a dark cigar.
Looking forward to the new Knife album, but this remains the peak of its powers for me. Fearless, emotional, deep, wild.
Here’s a 7-hour Spotify playlist of songs and whatnot I liked from 2012, which might as well prove that my taste in music makes absolutely no sense. (The Don Cherry/Solange/Bosse-de-Nage transition is my favorite.)
Starting off the New Year with Neil.
Twirling the keyboard line around in my head… it sounds Caribbean?
Still destroys me every single time.
How come I didn’t know there was a Low tribute comp and that Mark Kozelek did his Mark Kozelek thing to “Lazy”?
Woke up with this song in my head this morning. “A Mind of Her Own” was, at the time, Pedro the Lion’s most aggressive track. Given that David Bazan had kept to a monotonal brood until this song, there’s an unsettling and murderous passion to his vocals, which hits a fever pitch at this chilling conclusion: “Hey, where do you think you’re going? / Don’t you walk away from me / You put down that telephone / You’re not calling anyone.”
Psst… if you’re on Spotify, two new Scott Walker tracks from Bish Bosch just went up, including the kinda fun (?!) “Epizootics.”
