I don’t know about you, but I tend to go through these phases with my music listening habits; maybe Krautrock or Morricone or even… Led Zeppelin (well, maybe not Led Zeppelin). When I’m into one of these periods, little else is going to satisfy my mood or hold my attention. I’ll need a full week or …
How the Soul of Anatolian Rock Ended up Making the Greatest German Protest Record Constructing a daydream often starts with the same setting: I’m in a stripped down universe that must be close to the gates to heaven due to its bright nebula of bliss, and I have to give an angelic answer to a …
In times of distress destiny often tosses us a lifeline and mine came in the guise of the opening of a new Italian restaurant, “Formagio’s,” tucked beneath the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, which I couldn’t help noticing as I trudged home in the chill dusk after my panic attack atop the bridge. “Formagio’s! Formagio’s!” …
The new album ‘Mind Hive’ (read our review here) is bursting with energy and ideas. Sharp, crisp melodies that seem to find an adventurous balance between Wire’s elegance, aggression and experimentation. Achieving a textured atmosphere that seems completely bold and unique. Did you set out to find a balance between these different voices of the band? …
Dear John. I’m sitting here listening to the playback of this copy of Outside. I can hear the tape making noise and dropout. I can hear the old Wollensak sound. I wish it were a better copy. – Tony Conrad to his friend John Cale. Some albums are just a deep dives, the type of …
Forget Kraftwerk and Can, because here they are: DAF (Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft), the most exciting and influental German band of all times, with the second of their golden run of four albums*: Alles ist Gut (1981) – a unique marriage of sex and totalitarian attitude that remains timeless and fascinating to this day. DAF is a …
Released on March 20, 2000, Broadcast’s cinematic debut The Noise Made By People is a song cycle which tiptoes on a delicate balance between the labyrinthine contours of electronic experimentation (this is Warp records, of course) and the crystalline elegance of film scores (especially the swinging basslines and jazzy percussion of the ’60s.) And, most …
I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer. Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Idiot In the middle of the 1970s, David Bowie and Iggy Pop were both struggling with the demons of their drug addictions. Iggy …
The Idiot is the most important album of my life, because it almost made me give up music forever. I have to explain this. It was 1994, I was 21 and still playing with Kyuss. Back then I almost completely refused to listen to anything else than Kyuss. I was young and stupid, and I …
When Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis hung himself, his body was discovered with Iggy Pop’sThe Idiot still spinning on his turntable. The choice made sense, as the record directly inspired the dreary post-punk that Joy Division was beloved for. It’s odd then, that The Idiot was actually a stylistic detour for Iggy, an outlier …
