March 2012
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Choice Selections from the CMG Hatebag
re: Clayton Purdom & Alan Baban’s review of Weezer’s Weezer
the same week you guys rip on blender for its awful reviews i read the line “This is Rivers growing a dick. This is that dick growing a dick. This is that dick growing a Rivers.” Probably the worst sentence ever written in a review. do your reviewers even know what they are talking about. if there is anyway possible to...
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Record Review / Burial
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6865/burial-kindred-2012
Filmmaker/theorist Hito Steyerl said “the closer you get to something, the less recognizable it becomes,” and while she was speaking specifically to documentary art, the observation seems broadly applicable to most kinds of art in general. Burial’s music is the reduction of a scene into crackles, disembodied voices, and...
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Record Review / Big K.R.I.T.
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6851/bigkrit-4evanaday-2012
He’s standing at a crossroads, I think, where choosing one over the other wears on him—over the course of even one day. His shame gives planetary weight to every blunt hit, lean sip, and lazy ride through town; there is no such thing as a throwaway track here, there is only the ever-mounting battle over Big K.R.I.T.‘s soul.
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Record Review / Dirty Three
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6857/dirtythree-towardthelowsun-2012
If you come to Dirty Three’s first album in six years hoping they haven’t changed much, you’ll have to skip the first couple tracks to get to the goods. There is plenty of artfully sad, roomily captured post-rock here once you get past those introductory pieces. However, if you’re interested in watching the...
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WatchCMG Podcast #113: http://www.cokemachineglow.com/podcast/6856/cmgpodcast-cxiii Featuring: El-P, Black Dice, AU, The Men, Lilacs & Champagne, Babe Rainbow remixed by CFCF, Lee Fields and the Expressions, Curren$y, Roc Marciano, Raekwon, THEESatisfaction, Garbage Man, Korallreven remixed by Elite Gymnastics, Danny Brown, Schoolboy Q, and Balam Acab.
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Marissa Nadler f/ Black Hole Infinity :: “Clairaudients (Kill or Be Killed)” Bright Eyes cover; from the Fantasy Covers 2007 podcast (CMG; 2007)
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Track Review / Beck
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/dailyops/6862/beck-lookingforasign-2012
“Looking for a Sign,” his contribution to the film Jeff Who Lives at Home, is … a lovely, ethereal song in the vein of Sea Change (2002) with a gentle Dylan harmonica, airy acoustic guitar, and low piano to ground it.
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WatchClipse :: “Mr. Me Too” Album: Hell Hath No Fury (Re-Up/Star Trek/Jive; 2006)
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Mclusky :: “Undress for Success” Single (Too Pure; 2003)
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Record Review / Julia Holter
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6864/juliaholter-ekstasis-2012 Ekstasis welcomes those souls into its labyrinth, and asks only total surrender. You don’t give yourself over to Ekstasis so much as inexorably lose yourself within its glistening contours and fleeting visions of potentially misremembered moments of interpersonal, emotional, and spiritual enlightenment.
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Mount Eerie :: “House Shape” Album: Clear Moon (P.W. Elverum and Sun; 2012)
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Invincible :: “Looongawaited” Album: Shapeshifters (Emergence; 2008)
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Record Review / Xiu Xiu
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6855/xiuxiu-always-2012
It isn’t really fair to feign desensitization to this shit, even if it is somewhat understandable—who really wants to meditate on “Your father was the first man inside of you”? But we should. Because if Jamie Stewart ever stops having the audacity to sing lines like that, indie music is going to be a weaker, diluted space for...
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Record Review / Mouse on Mars
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6846/mouseonmars-parastrophics-2012
To my surprise and eventual satisfaction, much of the band’s new LP, Parastrophics, eschews the wildly unpredictable composition of most of their most well-known material, and instead finds comfort in settling in with a more unified palette to capture the signature Mouse on Mars toolbox-tumbling-down-stairs...
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Choice Selections from the CMG Hatebag
Re: Aaron Newell’s review of Can’s Monster Movie / Soundtracks / Tago Mago / Ege Bamyasi reissues Is this a joke? If so it’s not funny and no one will get it. Can recorded these albums decades ago, not last year. To write a review so ignorant is just insulting. I could say it’s funny or even sad reading Newell’s musings on Can’s modern-day influences, but...
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This Week in CMG / 2008
Slogan: “bearly worth while” Records Erykah Badu :: New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) (Chet Betz; 87%) Hot Chip :: Made in the Dark (Mark Abraham; 48%) Hot Chip :: Made in the Dark [Counterpoint] (Chet Betz; 69%) The Gutter Twins :: Saturnalia (Craig Eley; 79%) Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks :: Real Emotional Trash (Mark Abraham; 73%) Joshua Goldberg :: Double Murder Suicide...
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Bambara :: “Modern Love [David Bowie cover]” from the Fantasy Covers Contest podcast (CMG; 2011)
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Record Review / Heartless Bastards
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6849/heartlessbastards-arrow-2012
Heartless Bastards don’t forge any new ground, nor do they try to; Wennerstrom just always manages to bang out extremely well-written classic rock songs with enough stylistic variation to sustain a full length LP—an LP that will inevitably take a few listens to sink in. One gets the feeling she could probably do this...
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