a grammar: Odd Future, energy, inclusion, and exclusion
Nitsuh Abebe on Odd Future's energy, and their unfortunately exclusionary lyrics.
Village Voice: The Sublime Creations of Destroyer
Mike Powell takes on ‘Kaputt’ to grand results.
Vulture: Remembering Trish Keenan, the Extraordinary Singer for Broadcast
“It always feels a little silly to get too aggressively bereaved about the loss of a musician you liked — a person whose work you felt connected to, but never in the least knew. Still: Read over interviews with Keenan, and you see a thoughtful, dedicated, curious person, the kind of artist who cared enough about what she was doing that she’d actually set herself writing exercises. (One song a day, a song in a half-hour, that sort of thing.) She’d begun writing poetry and fiction, as well, and given the wealth of ideas and emotions she brought to Broadcast’s songs, I’d always wondered where that might lead — what might happen if she reached the age where music became a hassle and it was more attractive to sit down with a pen. But the work we do have from her is, for some of us, memorable enough, and well worth visiting.”