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Best New Music
This new Slumberland band will be bracketed with other lo-fi/noise-pop peers, but they have songs that will appeal beyond the confines of subcultures: Anyone with a weakness for trebly, melancholy pop music will find a lot to like about this record.
On The Crying Light, Antony Hegarty remains fascinated with the transitions and overlaps between birth and life, life and death, this world and the next, but he expresses them in more universal, more direct, but no less rapturous terms than he did on his New York-tinted breakthrough I Am a Bird Now.
Reviews
This 4xCD box set covering 15 years of music from Manchester's legendary Factory imprint-- Joy Division, New Order, OMD, A Certain Ratio, Happy Mondays, and many more are represented-- has the difficult task of summarizing a famously wayward label.
[Tom Ewing]Matthew Houck, aka Phosphorescent, follows three fine LPs of original songs with a tribute to the Red Headed Stranger, Willie Nelson.
[Joshua Love]Singer-songwriter's second album veers from doo-wop and folk to Queen bombast to tell the story of the tragic life and lonely death of Disney child actor Bobby Driscoll.
[Jessica Suarez]One half of Balearic revivalists Studio, D. Lissvik dismissed his group's synths and vocals here to focus primarily on the electric guitar.
[Marc Hogan]Pinback's Rob Crow is still pressing on with his lovingly silly metal side project; it's now moved beyond the novelty stage-- as the improved songwriting shows.
[Jason Crock]Mon: 02-09-09
Fri: 02-06-09
Thu: 02-05-09
Wed: 02-04-09
Forkcast
- Pitchfork.tv: Times New Viking: Live on "A>D>D" Part 2
- Premiere: Cage [prod. by El-P]: "Nothing Left to Say" [MP3/Stream]
- Pitchfork.tv: Chairlift: "Evident Utensil" [Video Premiere]
- Premiere: The Thermals: "Now We Can See" [MP3/Stream]
- Video: TV on the Radio: "Dancing Choose" (Live on "The Colbert Report")
- Pitchfork.tv: School of Seven Bells: "Half Asleep" [Video Premiere]
- New Music: Wavves: Various Songs (Live in Brooklyn at the Market Hotel) [MP3s]
Features
Interview: Stephen Malkmus
Twenty years (!) after the release of Pavement's debut, we talk to Stephen Malkmus about the deluxe reissue of Pavement's fourth album Brighten the Corners, his reasoning for relegating so many of his songs over the years to B-sides and rarities, and his future with the Jicks.
[Matthew Perpetua]Interview: Saint Etienne
We caught up with Saint Etienne co-founder and multi-instrumentalist Bob Stanley to talk about the band's rich history, his side work as a writer and curator, the changing face of music fandom, and why exactly his band has so many compilations.
[Scott Plagenhoef]Interview: Franz Ferdinand
After bringing intelligent, glamorous pop music to the masses, Franz Ferdinand have returned as a commerical force-- debuting songs in video games, collaborating with rap superstars-- but still are looking to expand their sonic palatte on their more exploratory new album, Tonight.
[Stuart Berman]While We Were Out...
Catching up with last week's reviews, including our takes on the new records from Bruce Springsteen and Franz Ferdinand, EP collaborations between Hot Chip and Robert Wyatt and Jon Brion and Of Montreal, and yet another pair of wonderful Optimo-related mixes.
[Pitchfork Staff]Interview: Buzzcocks
As they tour Europe performing their classic albums, the two original members of the influential punk band talk about reissues, riots, and throwing bricks through windows.
[Patrick Sisson]Interview: Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett
We spoke to the duo behind Gorillaz about their new project, Monkey, as well as such controversial subjects as the disintegration of the West, why Africa is the future of the world, cultural tourism, and Vampire Weekend.
[Scott Plagenhoef]