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1. Scanner – Pet (Headz) 2. Daphni – Long 3. Lindstrøm – Rà-àkõ-st 4. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Like a Sundae 5. Crystal Castles – Affection 6. Pye Corner Audio – The Black Mill Video Tape 7. Tamaryn – While You’re Sleeping, I’m Dreaming 8. Errors – Ammaboa Glass 9. Teen Daze – Garden [...]
1. Wonder World – “Let Me In” 2. Solange – “Losing You” 3. Hundred Waters – “Me & Anodyne” 4. Chris Cohen – “Monad” 5. Mount Eerie – “Ocean Roar” 6. The Mountain Goats – “The Diaz Brothers” 7. Why? – “Jonathan’s Hope” 8. Philco Fiction – “Finally” 9. Christian Gleinser – “Coming Around Again” [...]
1. Cuushe – “Do You Know the Way To Sleep? (Slow Magic Remix)” So, Pitchfork started this so-called “People’s List” – the idea is that they’re bringing the critical power to the People, you see, the unwashed masses. Direct power from the self-appointed True Music Cognoscenti to you and yours. Democratic as fuck. It’s like [...]
1. Fergus & Geronimo – “Drones” Dear Lollapalooza 2012: We’ve all led lives and processed versions of ourselves that we’re not at all proud of. It’s no secret. In some conceptual potential worm-reality this is all of us. Almost all of us have been douchebags/baguettes at some point in our lives. I’ve been a douchebag [...]
Just as William James emphasized the importance of experientiality to the mystic in Varieties of Religious Experience, I’ve come to believe that some music should be referred to as ‘experiential’ (is that taken?) or ‘suchness’ rather than by a name that attempts to describe the characteristics of the music, i.e. ‘drone,’ ‘ambient,’ ‘noise.’ The latter [...]
1. Cuushe – “Do You Know The Way To Sleep?” Quick administrative matter before we delve into things: here at NEWMUSICMACHINE headquarters (literally, ‘one fourth of a head’) we get tingling sensations in our feelers that warn us that people don’t really understand what’s happening in these pieces that we sometimes spend upwards of a [...]
1. Actress – “R.I.P.” 2. Orcas – “Arrow Drawn” Seems like everyone in the ‘effing blogosphere’ has an incontrovertible, deeply-held opinion about the new HBO show Girls, which is written by, directed by, and starring Lena Dunham (of Tiny Furniture). I saw Tiny Furniture at Ebertfest last year, and it might’ve been my favorite of [...]
“I had no strength to carry me as I went through the jungle, the desert, and the fields. When a bird found my trail, he revived me: a slow recovery. I found a light in the sky, I saw heaven open, and I did not understand this. When I woke, I was in a hut, [...]
1. Lil B – “NYU” They think they know about me, huh? They think they know Lil B, huh? So Lil B the Based God gave a lecture at NYU on Wednesday night. The music ‘blogoverse’ / ‘blogosphere’ was all abuzz about it and whatnot. But nearly everyone got it wrong, as they’ve been doing [...]
1. Chromatics – “Kill For Love” Here at the NEWMUSICMACHINE Headquarters (or ‘HQ’) we like to sit down with a nice glass of 40-year-old Laphroaig single malt scotch and think about the Common Man. His hopes, his dreams, his desires. We feel that we have something in common with this mythical Common Man. He is [...]
