Dipping into the record collection, for no other reason than it’s a nice thing to do.
Category Archives: 2020
The Crate: Gratitude
Dipping into the record collection, for no other reason than it’s a nice thing to do.
Emitt Rhodes
A brief farewell to Emitt Rhodes, who died today at the age of 70. His four 1970s album — mostly self-produced and entirely self-played on a four track in his house and released to minor commercial success — are the platonic ideal of a certain branch of pop music; one in which Rhythm and Blues …
Music Videos and the passing of all things
We had gotten as far as Creswick when my mother told me Grandma had taken a “turn” and by the time we were in Castlemaine, she had died. She was 89, and for months it was coming, and then it wasn’t, and then it had come. My Grandma, a selfless and giving woman, had a …
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The Crate: Stardust
Dipping into the record collection, for no other reason than it’s a nice thing to do.
Jay Electronica: A Written Testimony
An album with such a jarring disjuncture between its aesthetics and its politics I have to deal with them completely separately.
Little Richard
Sometime in 1955, Little Richard punched a hole in the air and created the conditions for most of the popular music that followed.
Iso-Listens: Leon Bridges, Good Thing
Brief chronicles of the albums getting us through lockdown
Mac Miller: Circles
A delayed look at the sleepy melancholy of Mac Miller’s posthumous Circles.
Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters
The first masterpiece of the decade?
Dancing to Architecture 