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| 4.5 superb | didnt ask to be staff, was made staff anyway, then got demoted for not doing staff stuff | May 18th 22 |
Partially enigmatic and quintessentially British minimal post-punk in its best primal form, The Drink (aka ********, or vice versa) make music for the quirkily depressed and depressedly quirky with what is a criminally overlooked, uberoriginal approach of lo-fi samples and (I think) amplifier experiments, hazy production, potato vocal mixes, dry lyrical humour. So familiar for the larger post-punk world, but so much its own thing.
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| 4.0 excellent | TheManMachine | July 19th 18 |
The title-track takeoff's howling barrage over a laugh track is an anomaly; the howling barrage part anyway. Thereon out you've got a guy/girl dynamic that's rudimentarily repetitive with drollery and crudeness as their charm. Slow+sparse+snobby enuff to chafe just about anyone, they read as a sillier Throbbing Gristle; or perhaps if being generous, The Vaselines as art-school burnouts. Machines tap, violins creak, drone groans, guitar crackles, grooves stay simultaneously shaky+steady, cheap three-note hooks languidly ring out and linger. But right, the drollery. "I'm a Zookeeper (Not a Goalkeeper)" is not about being a zookeeper or not being a goalkeeper, rather it's more about being/not being any ol thing one could be/not be that ends in 'er'. Its most upbeat involves seltzer testing and its most dour stars a very unfunny traveling comedian. Elsewhere, a rather masterful sendup of Supertramp's "The Logical Song" illogically segues into "Gangsta's Paradise", a duel deadpan wedlock decision is made during a Christmas tune, suicide-method suggestions are begotten via Reddit, a readymade is made ready and readymade. And most epic of all for the finale, the tale of a doomed friendship with a drunk dog.
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| 4.0 excellent | SandwichBubble | January 30th 18 |
Monkey's Paw: I just listened to a fantastic record, but I can't call it AOTY because it's a re-release.
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