Belated Music Reviews.
Beaches: Beaches
You know that notion of enjoying a book, or the source material, more than the adapted movie? Well, flipped and in reference to music, Beaches are an awesome live band, but with a respectable, wholly pragmatic, and serviceable debut album. It’s kind of like a joke that you had to be there to understand. Hilarious but, you know, attendance is required to fully appreciate the established and excellent goings on. In terms of what they actually sound like; if I ever bothered to actually REALLY listen to Sonic Youth, instead of just always skipping to my favourite couple of Sonic Youth songs, I imagine the Kim Gordon tracks probably sound something comparable to Beaches self titled LP. Which, honestly, sounds fabulous.
Jolie Holland: The Living and the Dead
This, for me, is an album made for: laying in bed on a weekend, or after hours, and just letting it play on repeat. Soothing and comforting, like retiring to a cushy and cozy hotel room after hanging out all day on set of an Oliver Stone movie when the shooting day has wrapped, and all day long they’ve pumped Lenard Cohen through loudspeakers and only shot six and a half minutes of footage for dailies. Try it, the next spare Sunday morning you have, it works. Individual results may vary. But more succinctly, The Living and the Dead sounds like less insecure, but further rustic and a not-so-shoe-gazer version of Mazzy Star; kind of like if Hope Sandoval, lead singer of now-defunct Mazzy Star, had smoked less opium but more pot.
Kaki King: Mexican Teenagers EP
Is there a bad thing to be said about Kaki King? No! Is that purely a flimsy and subjective opinion? Yes! Regardless, how nice is it of Kaki to have donated all the money made at her Melbourne gigs from the sale of this EP to the Red Cross in support of bush fire victims? Real nice! This five track EP is ‘Kaki King doing Kaki King-esque dirge-rock and ambient meanderings.’ Awesome!
Qua: Q&A
We had the...
Belated Music Reviews.
Beaches: Beaches
You know that notion of enjoying a book, or the source material, more than the adapted movie? Well, flipped and in reference to music, Beaches are an awesome live band, but with a respectable, wholly pragmatic, and serviceable debut album. It’s kind of like a joke that you had to be there to understand. Hilarious but, you know, attendance is required to fully appreciate the established and excellent goings on. In terms of what they actually sound like; if I ever bothered to actually REALLY listen to Sonic Youth, instead of just always skipping to my favourite couple of Sonic Youth songs, I imagine the Kim Gordon tracks probably sound something comparable to Beaches self titled LP. Which, honestly, sounds fabulous.
Jolie Holland: The Living and the Dead
This, for me, is an album made for: laying in bed on a weekend, or after hours, and just letting it play on repeat. Soothing and comforting, like retiring to a cushy and cozy hotel room after hanging out all day on set of an Oliver Stone movie when the shooting day has wrapped, and all day long they’ve pumped Lenard Cohen through loudspeakers and only shot six and a half minutes of footage for dailies. Try it, the next spare Sunday morning you have, it works. Individual results may vary. But more succinctly, The Living and the Dead sounds like less insecure, but further rustic and a not-so-shoe-gazer version of Mazzy Star; kind of like if Hope Sandoval, lead singer of now-defunct Mazzy Star, had smoked less opium but more pot.
Kaki King: Mexican Teenagers EP
Is there a bad thing to be said about Kaki King? No! Is that purely a flimsy and subjective opinion? Yes! Regardless, how nice is it of Kaki to have donated all the money made at her Melbourne gigs from the sale of this EP to the Red Cross in support of bush fire victims? Real nice! This five track EP is ‘Kaki King doing Kaki King-esque dirge-rock and ambient meanderings.’ Awesome!
Qua: Q&A
We had the pleasure of arriving to a Because of Ghosts gig earlyish, quite a while ago, and caught the support band Qua. Same thing happened at a Pivot gig last year, with Qua as the opening act. At both gigs; Darrick, Alana, and I, carried out the whole nodding of the head and agreeing that we should, at some point, pick up Q&A or whatever else the band had released. The word ‘Qua’ in latin means ‘in the capacity of.’ Having an understanding of Latin, like Darrick supposedly does, is not by any means a prerequisite to having an appreciation of twitchy and playful hipster dance music. But I’m sure it helps.
-G.
Beaches: Beaches
You know that notion of enjoying a book, or the source material, more than the adapted movie? Well, flipped and in reference to music, Beaches are an awesome live band, but with a respectable, wholly pragmatic, and serviceable debut album. It’s kind of like a joke that you had to be there to understand. Hilarious but, you know, attendance is required to fully appreciate the established and excellent goings on. In terms of what they actually sound like; if I ever bothered to actually REALLY listen to Sonic Youth, instead of just always skipping to my favourite couple of Sonic Youth songs, I imagine the Kim Gordon tracks probably sound something comparable to Beaches self titled LP. Which, honestly, sounds fabulous.
Jolie Holland: The Living and the Dead
This, for me, is an album made for: laying in bed on a weekend, or after hours, and just letting it play on repeat. Soothing and comforting, like retiring to a cushy and cozy hotel room after hanging out all day on set of an Oliver Stone movie when the shooting day has wrapped, and all day long they’ve pumped Lenard Cohen through loudspeakers and only shot six and a half minutes of footage for dailies. Try it, the next spare Sunday morning you have, it works. Individual results may vary. But more succinctly, The Living and the Dead sounds like less insecure, but further rustic and a not-so-shoe-gazer version of Mazzy Star; kind of like if Hope Sandoval, lead singer of now-defunct Mazzy Star, had smoked less opium but more pot.
Kaki King: Mexican Teenagers EP
Is there a bad thing to be said about Kaki King? No! Is that purely a flimsy and subjective opinion? Yes! Regardless, how nice is it of Kaki to have donated all the money made at her Melbourne gigs from the sale of this EP to the Red Cross in support of bush fire victims? Real nice! This five track EP is ‘Kaki King doing Kaki King-esque dirge-rock and ambient meanderings.’ Awesome!
Qua: Q&A
We had the...