saturday post
The thing is that conversations, exchanges of the sort, come naturally to small places. In bigger places, they can be done, with effort, which isn't so attractive to me. Bigger places are more for taking turns on the microphone, or tuning out; yelling what you have to say within earshot or dividing your attention. It took me a long time to figure out that I have tuned out of that part of this place since it won't happen anymore. This year was where the preciousness ended for me. Only, I am not any less fixated with music so the M- stands.
It is hard to be a post-punk / noise rock / dance-punk album in 2010 and not be appraised alongside Twin Shadow, Sleigh Bells, etc. (The Drums may count, to an extent) and the usual suspects. For me, Weekend from San Francisco, more Slumberland signees, are kind of linear, is the word that comes to mind, about wearing their influences. On the upside, they are not bad influences. Not a great album, in my humble opinion, Sports has good things going for it, like these songs.
Veil : by Weekend : from Sports
End Times : by Weekend : from Sports
Age Class : by Weekend : from Sports
Locating MOG account...
Comments (9)
...and, oh, being unable to tag when it isn't in the database.
mmm hhmmm, it's that modern beach-music sound - like a buzz saw cutting through balsa wood, with lyrics obscured by the hovering sawdust...not imperative, but still better than the radio :)
you retain your enviable trait of finding just the right words. THe age of comment doth come to a close, eh? Now, pipe down, fill up my green tea and cue up another.
You just know I'm all over this like holy on rice....no....like holy on the pope,,,yeah, that's it, holy on the pope.
...But yeah, I like this music you bring fourth today....right up my alley-oop
Totally dug this, and it's not my usual stuff...GREAT post Poe!! Gonna check out Weekend right now..thanks for turning me on :-)
sounds like a less polished, more primal Franz Ferdinand. . . and also some heavy Joy Division influence, especially that 2nd song.
yea, I'd be gone from here if it weren't for you & the intelligent music talk. although the mog music player is sublime but you can't access it since you're not in the US.
Ilay, I know just how you feel, and I feel that is why this place has lost so much appeal to me. Having said that, I'd be devastated if you left, since you see things in ways I'd never consider. (That's a very good thing, just to be clear.)
As for Weekend, I think their album is magical and I adore it. I'm sure this does not surprise you at all.
Scott, that is how it is, sipping tea and flipping pages quietly, looking up to adjust the volume control now and again.
Jeff, i mean, this album puts me in a kind of trance where i would not be surprised if i started seeing things.
GR, then i have done my duty for the day. i love it that you love it.
Aug, total JD influence all over the album.
it is ironic that i feel the weight of the minuses yet the plusses do nothing for me due to geographic location. i know that many are around silently and streaming away but the experience is quite different for me ... for the most part, there is no experience.
Dale, one of the lowest points this year was when i visited your profile page and Cody's and saw them empty. that for me was like the visual proof of the end of an era, that i was in denial of.
i love the above songs, i love the music. the album was the let-down (not in a huge way) or i think just the way the tracks did not come together solidly. still, i am totally rooting for this band.
you know I like this! where ya been Poe? oh thats right, mog is still and silent now, not even a mouse in a fiber optic cable with a byte of cheese would make a peep. I might take up some sports...
hope you are well, letting you know that these tunes cheer me beyond belief. as post-punk only can & should, consider my attention divided, but yet recognize it is remorsefully unresolved and incomplete. cheers to you!