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#33 album of 2012 – Children of the Law of One by Justinus Primitive
Artist: Justinus Primitive
Album: Children of the Law of One
Sometimes it’s clear that, happy as I am with an album, I’m *not* its target listener.
Like, with Justinus Primitive’s Children of the Law of One, well … there’s this dumb recurring Facebook motif that might help explain. First photo (in a real version we’d put these lyrics from City Dervish as superimposed captions in all caps): “Have you ever tripped out to the gaze of the Sears […]
#34 album of 2012 – Keep You Close by dEUS
Artist: dEUS
Album: Keep You Close
dEUS, on Keep You Close, build smoky, minor-key rock grooves and lock into them, building and shaping each over the course of about five minutes. Their singer Tom Barman, the American among these giants of the Belgian scene, used to remind me of Kermit’s nephew Robin the Frog and/or Emmet Otter and/or Gobo Fraggle. His vocal tone still remains from those comparisons, but Barman’s shed his boyishness (though less so […]
#35 album of 2012 – Swing Lo Magellan by Dirty Projectors
Artist: Dirty Projectors
Album: Swing Lo Magellan
One of the most basic music-theory concepts — I don’t know the fancy ones — is the “interval”: the gap between one note and the next. A “first” is the same note repeated. A “third” is two letters apart in terms of the note name: for example, a C followed by an E. The third might be a “major third” C to E, “minor third” C to E-flat, “augmented third” […]