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musics of 2019
musics of 2019
Below, you will find a list of several albums that came out in two thousand and nineteen that this writer found particularly marvelous…
L Beeson
Jan 1, 2020
ALBUM REVIEW: Dramamine, by Bailey Minzenberger
ALBUM REVIEW: Dramamine, by Bailey Minzenberger
Dramamine, the new album from multi-instrumentalist Bailey Minzenberger, declares itself immediately. The minimal, slightly modulated…
L Beeson
Mar 5, 2019
Big Thief performs Not
Big Thief performs Not
There’s a certain weightlessness here. This static in the air – the feeling that you might be floating. Big Thief feel it. Urgent and…
L Beeson
Oct 11, 2019
Holy Faun: The Black Moon
Holy Faun: The Black Moon
There’s something about the way a bowed instrument can convey emotion over the course of a single note that is very difficult to find in…
L Beeson
Jan 17, 2020
Album Review: Bark Your Head Off, Dog (Hop Along)
Album Review: Bark Your Head Off, Dog (Hop Along)
You know that feeling when you really get into an album — the songwriting, technique, performance, everything — and then you realize that…
L Beeson
Apr 8, 2018
Film Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Film Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
I’ve been thinking about the concept of building worlds a lot recently. There seem to be generally two camps — those who want to know every…
L Beeson
Nov 13, 2017
Kendrick Lamar and the Collapse of American Politics
Kendrick Lamar and the Collapse of American Politics
Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 masterpiece To Pimp a Butterfly is difficult to pin down. Hip-hop, jazz, funk, rock, metal (yes), soul, and more…
L Beeson
Jun 9, 2016
Recommended listening
Musical Representation of Absolute Despair — La Dispute’s “New Storms for Older Lovers”
Musical Representation of Absolute Despair — La Dispute’s “New Storms for Older Lovers”
(Written October 2015)
Sean Nolan
Aug 11, 2016
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Album Review: Fever Daydream, by The Black Queen
Album Review: Fever Daydream, by The Black Queen
Originally published February 2016
L Beeson
Jan 24, 2017
Hop Along — “Waitress”
Hop Along — “Waitress”
{editors note: as part of our migration to Medium, we’ll be republishing some pieces from our old blog. Hope you enjoy!}
L Beeson
May 14, 2016
Mitski’s Puberty 2: The Rhetoric of Melody
Mitski’s Puberty 2: The Rhetoric of Melody
Mitski found me through a recent episode of “Adventure Time,” one of the only times the show has borrowed music from our real world. I…
Sean Nolan
Aug 4, 2016
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