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2023 in Music: The 23 Best Albums of the Year
So, was this a good or a bad year for music? Every year as I start writing these lists, I hate answering that question. My attitude has always been that if you thought any year was a bad year for music then you just weren’t looking in the right places. The best year for music […] More
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On Barry’s Use of “The Wizard” — Never Talking, Fuches Spreads His Magic
Prior to its release, I wondered if Barry S4E6 was entitled “The Wizard” in reference or allusion to The Wizard of Oz, and you could argue that it is. Certainly one could build a chain of resonances with what happens to Sally in the episode and how it culminates in her thematically “not being in […] More
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Gilmore Girls’ “I Will Always Love You” Scene Somehow Works
The final season of the original run of Gilmore Girls is often called the worst of the series. It’s the only season without Amy Sherman-Palladino or Daniel Palladino acting as showrunner or writer. There are plenty of other people online who have talked about what went wrong during this season, but, as they say, even […] More
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Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd? — Lana Del Rey Is Back
My first experience of Lana Del Rey was seeing the music video for “Blue Jeans.” It must have been about 2013 and it appeared on one of those channels dedicated to chart songs. I remember being captivated by the shadows in the water and by the luxury dripping from Del Rey’s vocals. I have sought […] More
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Top 10 Albums of 2022
Insofar as my musical experiences of the last 12 months will be remembered, 2022 was the year that artists I’d been trying to get into finally clicked. Artists like The Weeknd, Earl Sweatshirt and FKA Twigs took the first months of the year to take the reins and each released their best works. They were […] More
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Top 10 Songs of 2022
Following up my top 10 albums of the year list, it’s perhaps easier to single out the best individual songs of the year, as one doesn’t have to weigh entire tracklists against each other. Each of the songs on this list had just a few minutes to, in a single stroke, explore the emotions and […] More
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A Deep Dive Into “The 1975” *
A few months back, I wrote a piece about My Chemical Romance, a band I was fanatically into at various points in my adolescence. I’m fairly sure I did call them the band of my teenage years when I look back. Well, I lied. I wish MCR were the band of my teenage years, because […] More
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This [Sounds Like] a True Story: Scoring the Heightened Reality of Noah Hawley’s Fargo
Noah Hawley’s Fargo (2014– ) was not the first film or television work inspired by Joel and Ethan Coens’ classic film of the same name (Fargo, 1996). There exist as well an aborted attempt at a standard television crime series, with Edie Falco recast as the intrepid Marge Gunderson from the film, as well as […] More
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The Beatles’s “Taxman”: A Lyrical Over-Analysis
When you are told to picture The Beatles, the likely chance is that you think of their simple, catchy love songs, which is to do a disservice to the band’s latter work in expanding and diversifying the musical scene then, now, and forever. All of this without getting political…well, almost. One song that sticks out […] More
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Cool Cymru: The Fantastic Five of the Welsh Sound
After decades of neglect and hardship, the 1990s into the 2000s saw Wales patent its own artistic cultural identity as “Cool Cymru” blossomed. Taken from the British term “Cool Britannia”—attributed to the new cultural change taking place within the UK, headed by Britpop outfits like Oasis and revolutionary politics led by Labour Prime Minister Tony […] More
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Black Midi: Hellfire — Showtunes for the Apocalypse
Right from conception, listeners held Black Midi as something special, spawning near the center of discourse with their first single “bmbmbm”, a gibbering bit of pummeling noise rock awesomeness which perked the ears of the buggier side of the music listening spectrum. This initial wave of intrigue manifested into the critical acclaim of Schlagenheim, their […] More
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Bastille’s Newest Album, Give Me the Future, Tackles the End of the World
A band who pull inspiration from history, mythology, and world politics, Bastille are a fourpiece band who formed in London in 2010. They became famous in 2013 when their single ‘Pompeii’ became incredibly popular and earned them top chart position in countries including Ireland and the US. The intellectual and political lyricism is what drew […] More
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