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John Vs. “XXX” by Danny Brown
This review is brought to you by the promise that I’d start writing whenever I felt I had something to say about a record, new or old. Also, real quick, before anyone gets anything I say twisted, fuck all the patriarchal bullshit in the world that crushes my friends and their friends and the people we’re not friends with yet. This is not a defense for you or any pigs. This is just a review of an album. Continue reading
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John Vs. “Because the Internet” by Childish Gambino
I felt compelled to write this after posting the award dump where it’s revealed that my personal pick was this record, and I felt there’s kind of an explanation required. Continue reading
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John Vs. “R Plus Seven” by Oneohtrix Point Never, the Best Album of 2013
This is probably not a surprise if you have directly talked to us at any point after September, but before we talk about this album, let’s talk about MEEEEE. Continue reading
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On Throwing Back
I thought nostalgia was defeated. This is the part of the movie trailer where the camera rises up from darkness, filming a busy sidewalk and playing it back in fast forward. I really thought we’d gotten over it. Daft Punk’s album came and went, now most known for the backing song of that thing Colbert did instead of an artistic statement of any value. That was the monster suddenly coming back to life for one last swipe before it really died, I thought. Camera passes through the concrete, somehow ending up exactly in a lit, large sewer. A shadow grows on the center framed wall. Sting, followed by sudden cut to black.
I was wrong. Continue reading
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John Vs. “Random Access Memories” by Daft Punk
“It’s easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they’ve been fooled.” ~Mark Twain Continue reading
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In lieu of a show and to counter-program against certain records that are getting a lot of exposure right now, hit play and set your mind on fire.
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RETRACE 2012 pt 2
At the first half of this year, there was a temptation to include The Money Store in Ineffable, which passed as we got to know the albums that would actually populate the category. Looking back at last year, Ineffable was kind of a cop-out category. We don’t intend on having a folk category, so the three folk albums that had an effect ended up there. We thought tUnE-yArDs was too “weird” to be in pop and so we excluded it. 13 & God and Colin Stetson were the only legitimate candidates, and Stetson was the reason the whole category existed.
This year, I’ve taken advantage of the term to go and experience some truly far out shit, so the things in Ineffable are mostly of my own footwork and discovery. Pure noise recording, ambient non-electronic recordings, and a repeat appearance.
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RETRACE 2012, Part 1
(Yeah, I know. Content death. We’re hobbyists. Shit happens. I’m back now, anyways.)
2012 has been an insane year for music. Really, we chose the worst time to stop writing about things, because I know that I have a whole lot of shit I want to talk about that I haven’t gotten the chance to. So I’m embarking on a tiny adventure, focused on the year end shit.
We still split things up by genre, and in every genre, there’s these impossible juggernauts that seem unstoppable as category winners. At the same time, we’re not interested in something so droolingly easy as declaring category winners months ahead of time (although there was a brief temptation to rename the Best Album of 2012 award to “The Seer Memorial Runner Up Album of the Year 2012” before even that got hazy). Since we take a genre approach, this gives an easy way to introduce the records we’ve been enjoying that have a real shot at being category winners. Continue reading
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Fermata over Whole Rest 