Tag Archives: 2009

Cymbals Eat Guitars — Why There Are Mountains

I wasn’t quite sure what to make of Nit­suh Abebe’s lat­est col­umn for Pitch­fork, “How to Be a Vam­pire.” In it, he turns the nos­tal­gia talk­ing point on its head, and rem­i­nisces over his approach to music in ado­les­cence, “lis­ten­ing like a vam­pire, lis­ten­ing because I desired to suck some­thing out of the music for …

September 8, 2011 – 2:10 pm | By lex | Posted in Music | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Destroyer — Bay of Pigs

Destroyer’s 2009 EP, Bay of Pigs – a two-song, 21 minute out­ing — is its so called “Disco Record.”  That’s because there are post-techno disco ele­ments, of course, but I think it’s worth not­ing that the EP con­sists of only a few dance­able min­utes, maybe only two, ignor­ing the idea that one can dance to …

October 4, 2010 – 6:27 am | By lex | Posted in Music | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)