-
neumu
Saturday, October 5, 2024 
-
-
--archival-captured-cinematronic-continuity error-daily report-datastream-depth of field--
-
--drama-44.1 khz-gramophone-inquisitive-needle drops-picture book-twinklepop--
-
Neumu = Art + Music + Words
Search Neumu:  

illustration
44.1kHz = music reviews

edited by michael goldbergcontact




Editor's note: We have activated the Neumu 44.1 kHz Archive. Use the link at the bottom of this list to access hundreds of Neumu reviews.

+ Donato Wharton - Body Isolations
+ Svalastog - Woodwork
+ Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet
+ Rosy Parlane - Jessamine
+ Jarvis Cocker - The Jarvis Cocker Record
+ Múm - Peel Session
+ Deloris - Ten Lives
+ Minimum Chips - Lady Grey
+ Badly Drawn Boy - Born In The U.K.
+ The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls Together
+ The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
+ The Places - Songs For Creeps
+ Camille - Le Fil
+ Wolf Eyes - Human Animal
+ Christina Carter - Electrice
+ The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
+ Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
+ Various Artists - Musics In The Margin
+ Rafael Toral - Space
+ Bob Dylan - Modern Times
+ Excepter - Alternation
+ Chris Thile - How To Grow A Woman From The Ground
+ Brad Mehldau - Live in Japan
+ M Ward - Post-War
+ Various Artists - Touch 25
+ The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
+ The White Birch - Come Up For Air
+ Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
+ Coachwhips - Double Death
+ Various Artists - Tibetan And Bhutanese Instrumental And Folk Music, Volume 2
+ Giuseppe Ielasi - Giuseppe Ielasi
+ Cex - Actual Fucking
+ Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
+ Leafcutter John - The Forest And The Sea
+ Carla Bozulich - Evangelista
+ Barbara Morgenstern - The Grass Is Always Greener
+ Robin Guthrie - Continental
+ Peaches - Impeach My Bush
+ Oakley Hall - Second Guessing
+ Klee - Honeysuckle
+ The Court & Spark - Hearts
+ TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
+ Awesome Color - Awesome Color
+ Jenny Wilson - Love And Youth
+ Asobi Seksu - Citrus
+ Marsen Jules - Les Fleurs
+ The Moore Brothers - Murdered By The Moore Brothers
+ Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
+ The 1900s - Plume Delivery EP
+ Alejandro Escovedo - The Boxing Mirror
+ Function - The Secret Miracle Fountain
+ Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
+ Loscil - Plume
+ Boris - Pink
+ Deadboy And The Elephantmen - We Are Night Sky
+ Glissandro 70 - Glissandro 70
+ Calexico - Garden Ruin (Review #2)
+ Calexico - Garden Ruin (Review #1)
+ The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
+ The Glass Family - Sleep Inside This Wheel
+ Various Artists - Songs For Sixty Five Roses
+ The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
+ Motorpsycho - Black Hole/Blank Canvas
+ The Red Krayola - Introduction
+ Metal Hearts - Socialize
+ American Princes - Less And Less
+ Sondre Lerche And The Faces Down Quartet - Duper Sessions
+ Supersilent - 7
+ Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
+ Dudley Perkins - Expressions
+ Growing - Color Wheel
+ Red Carpet - The Noise Of Red Carpet
+ The Essex Green - Cannibal Sea
+ Espers - II
+ Wilderness - Vessel States

44.1 kHz Archive



peruse archival
snippet
    
artist
Weird War
recording
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Bite 'Em
Drag City
snippet
rating


O, Svenonius! Scourge of rock 'n' roll phoniness! For whom The Kids'll always say Yeah!, offering such affirmative reciprocation whilst in wait for their Final Judgment, dancing all the time in time to the sounds of your Revolution. Which, with this Weird War redux, sounds less like some revolution-style-now and more like the style-of-now, Our Ian's rock 'n' roll strut and magnificent haircut the kind of artifice adopted by male models at the moment. So, the question goes, now: How do those Svenoniusian theatricks — rock band as concept, rock band in outfits, rock band indulging in ongoing call-and-response chant with audience — fare now that they're the pop-cultural norm? And how does rock 'n' roll still suit his insurgent ends now that Da Strokes have returned rockin' back to affluent white males after that disturbing time when queer-core/riot-grrrl types tried to use the rock band as vehicle for their own agendas? Riding that vehicle now seems more like riding a dead horse, and with crop in hand Svenonius is turning a U-turn, the discographical lineage for our leader now reading: NOU—>Make-Up—>Weird War—>Scene Creamers—>(<—>) Weird War, this redux a reduction, really, a back-in-time to that time where Svenonius' irrepressible spirit was actually smothered under the studio dickery and fretboard wankery of Neil Michael Hagerty. But of course, this time around there's not a Hagerty to be heard, and, free from this blanket, Svenonius' flames can fire up a go-over burning some soul into that one weak spot in his back-story, Weird War now not just some one-off indulgence, but an ever-changing ever-revolving combo divisible from Scene Creamers in name only. Like all of this post-Make-Up Svenonius/Mae output, If You Can't Beat 'Em, Bite 'Em occasionally nails an anthemic anthem ("Grand Fraud," "AK-47," its Jennifer Herrema-guesting title track), but spends most of its time indulging in analog-tonal authenticity and groovy rock 'n' roll eccentricity, seeming more self-satisfied than solemnly striving. Which is nice work if y'can author it.


by Anthony Carew




-
-snippetcontactsnippetcontributorssnippetvisionsnippethelpsnippetcopyrightsnippetlegalsnippetterms of usesnippetThis site is Copyright © 2003 Insider One LLC
-