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Jeremy
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Writer, editor, small-town pizza lawyer
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Last one, Yasmin Williams’ Acadia, plus a full top 20 list for anyone who wound up here. Thanks if you did.
Yasmin Williams- Acadia: She shreds. Blows out her "a fine hike through the woods" sound to even greater effect than on the also excellent Urban Driftwood. Tells stories without ever speaking:
January 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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• Nala Sinephro- Endlessness
• This is Lorelei- Box for Buddy, Box for Star
• Waxahatchee- Tigers Blood
• Wishy- Triple Seven
Nala Sinephro- Endlessness: Weightlessness. Harmonious, unyielding. Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space and we'll all float on, alright. This is Lorelei- Box for Buddy, Box for Star: Jamming on a laptop in a bedroom studio above the club somewhere along the backroads of Twang County, USA. Wields a certain clearheaded assuredness to the point of being infectious despite hopping in and out of various genre tropes. Look at my ball; it's perfect. Waxahatchee- Tigers Blood: The art of figuring things out and totally nailing it. Katie Crutchfield's lean into country music's stylings has been such an undeniable success that I don't even mind she's not playing anything from her non-countrified releases in concert. Wishy- Triple Seven: Shoegaze as a genre never really went anywhere, yet, at the same time, it isundeniably back. 90s nostalgia is good when it's for things l like. Dummy or GIFT could also slot in here.
January 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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• Jessica Pratt- Here in the Pitch
• Mannequin Pussy- I Got Heaven
• Mdou Moctar- Funeral for Justice
• MJ Lenderman- Manning Fireworks
Jessica Pratt- Here in the Pitch: Mood: It's 7:22 on a May morning. Our apartment is still kind of dark as the sun slowly creeps through the windows and across the floorboards of this railroad layout. The three kinds of birds in Bushwick are chirping away from perches atop trees, wires, and cornices. Spring, rebirth, is commencing its ascent across the perma-drear encompassing us. I'm starting to believe, at last, at least for a moment, things can get better. When I listen now, I can still get back there. Mannequin Pussy- I Got Heaven: A sonic switchblade you keep in your back pocket just in case. All bark and also all bite. As complete as this band has sounded to date. Mdou Moctar- Funeral for Justice: Anti-colonial rage channeled through locked-in rhythms and breathtaking fretboard pyrotechnics. (One of my favorite live shows of the year, too!) MJ Lenderman- Manning Fireworks: For some reason, there was discourse around this album and whether or not MJ Lenderman is the new Neil Young? He's not. But also, Neil Young could never beat Guitar Hero. But that's all beside the point, which is that there's no better series of back-back-to-back-back home run tracks this year than Joker Lips/ Rudolph/Wristwatch/She's Leaving You. If you want to argue, I'll be trying and still failing after all these years to beat "Hangar 18" on Guitar Hero 2.
January 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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December 16, 2024 at 11:46 PM