The other day I was driving back from dropping the kid off at non-school-day care on a foggy morning. I plugged my phone into the aux jack and had YouChoob Muzik tell me what I wanted to hear. The results:
1. Song from Leya's lovely new EP I Forget Everything
2. Another song from Leya's lovely new EP I Forget Everything
3. Side 2 of Hüsker Dü's blarrgh-ultracore Land Speed Record (probably their best album)
It worked better than you'd expect. I got home just as "Let's Go Die" ended and "Data Control" started.
Good Morning's The Accident just came out, and I like the 8-minute single "Soft Rock Band." Their MO is to make smarter-than-usual background vocal-fry coffeehouse pop, which they usually pull off well, music to put on and ignore and then occasionally catch something weird or wild. This song, by dint of being eight minutes long, is structurally difficult to ignore, and then I catch that the lyrics are more pointed than usual, and I like the fact that they pronounce the phrase "Soft. Rock. Band." as the molossus it has always wanted to be rather than a slurred creaky-voice afterthought.
I am glad that KISN 95.1 continues its low power dominance of the airwaves within visual distance of Mt. Scott in outer Southeast Portland and unincorporated Clackamas County. The other night they played "Love Will Keep Us Together." Of course JL and I danced to it in the kitchen. One must. I have a history of ironic Gen X appropriation of that song and album, but I also kind of really love it. Solid construction, goofy synths everywhere, a bridge that actually works, and just when you want it to modulate up, it modulates up.
Which reminds me that I need to find and digitize the cassettes of my mid-90s "Love Will Keep Us Together" digital manipulation frenzies and fuzzbox freakouts. It was definitely a returning theme. And maybe I should return to the theme with thirty years of, um, wisdom?
