What does a masterpiece look like? In 1984, it looked like a passport photo taken in a jazz club. The album cover perfectly encapsulates the sound of the record: timeless and utterly self-possessed.
The entire life and death of the universe, every creature that has ever crawled on land, every star that has ever exploded, was just a soundtrack for some teenage girl called Chiyono.
Crazy to think right? It's like the end of the first Men In Black movie where the camera zooms out of the earth and you slowly realise the whole galaxy is just a marble aliens play with. In fact, there's a MIB line that fits this perfectly:
"Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was ... read more
For a while, a friend told me that watching paint dry is a transcendent experience, and that I should try it. Not boring, not tedious. Transcendent. Just be patient, and let the stillness wash over you. And eventually, I sat down and watched paint dry.
It was just paint drying.
I tried again, hoping that maybe I'd missed something. Nope, still paint, still dry.
Apparently I just don't get it.
Volcano is a dance song I would say is good but now that I think about it maybe it only ... read more
Peggy famously recorded over 100 songs for Veteran and just edited them down. I don't think it's crazy to say most of those tracks took less time to produce than their actual runtime.
And what I mean by that is half the album is just filler bullshit disguised as art. It's either shitposts like My Thoughts on Neogaf Dying that get stale once you listen to them more than once or.. whatever Germs is.
It hurts because there are undeniable bangers like Baby I'm Bleeding and ... read more
For the First Time is like a Jewish wedding where everything is on fire and there is a couple and one of them has a saxophone for a head and the other a violin and they are both screaming at each other and in the middle of it all is Isaac Wood having a very eloquent mental breakdown.