Most of Lace Curtains’ new album A Signed Piece of Paper is quirky, unassuming indie pop, but “The Fly” is a whole different beast. Something about the guitar tone reminds me of Women, if they sanded down some of their sharper edges and made an art pop album instead of jagged post punk. Yes, I realize that description only makes sense in my own head. “Shakes his little feet and rubs his little hands. Slips you a CD of his nu-metal band” is a frontrunner for lyric of the year.
Archives
All posts by Feige
The best song on the best album by Ryan Adams gets the Superchunk treatment, and the results are unsurprisingly great. Shame I can’t play it on the show. Off of the While No One Was Looking: Toasting 20 Years of Bloodshot Records comp, out November 18th.
Well here’s a nice surprise. The Velvet Underground are reissuing their S/T debut, and including a 1969 live performance from San Francisco’s The Matrix club. And while the performance has been floating around for years, the recording has been super cleaned up. This is one of the best sounding live VU sets I’ve ever heard.
The new Grouper album is a serious AOTY contender.
…performed live for Echo Locale. Is this what always goes on inside womens’ rooms?
Video for “Your Love is Killing Me”, a highlight off of van Etten’s AOTY contender Are We There.
Happy Halloween, everybody! I’ll let Otis take it from here…
A few years ago, I went pretty deep into a Chilean psych rabbit hole, and now I’m starting to rediscover some of the music that came out of my short infatuation. I can barely find any info on The Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane, but I’m glad I stumbled upon their self titled (and possibly only?) LP somehow.