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  • slint – spiderland (1991)

    slint – spiderland (1991)

    The opening licks on ‘Breadcrumb Trail’ do not imply the sprawling jam of ‘Spiderland,’ nor do they show any signs of its nocturnal ambience. This record flooded from the basement of a band not doing as well as they could, while playing with a pointed creative privilege. The introspection means that they cannot flail outwardly. […]

    Seth Rice

    January 6, 2023
    30/30, post-rock, rock
  • bob dylan – blonde on blonde (1966)

    bob dylan – blonde on blonde (1966)

    Clarice Lispector’s 1973 work ‘Agua Viva’ is written in the syllabic flow of a perfect novel, but expressed through streaming narratives and hellishly opaque metaphor. An outline. I think Bob Dylan had the same idea on ‘Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands’ – to write passively with lyrical latitude and have faith that between alien […]

    Seth Rice

    January 5, 2023
    30/30, blues, classic review, folk, rock
  • franz schubert – winterreise (1828)

    franz schubert – winterreise (1828)

    Six months after his only commercially successful concert, Schubert died of an illness that history has since crosshatched as syphilis and/or typhoid fever. Despite the elemental desolation of Winterreise, it is ecstatic in movement—dropping low and leaping in a daze to touch the sun. The strict, often slow, tempo jousts with liquidus emotions that would […]

    Seth Rice

    January 4, 2023
    30/30, classic review, classical
  • 7 year bitch – ¡viva zapata! (1994)

    7 year bitch – ¡viva zapata! (1994)

    We expend a lot of energy trying not to be irritable, so when anger rises it rouses the question of whether to silence it or push forward. That, of course, depends on stimuli. For 7 Year Bitch, the stimulus was the death of their guitarist, Stefanie Sargent, and the brutal murder of their friend, The […]

    Seth Rice

    January 3, 2023
    30/30, classic review, punk, rock
  • the velvet underground – loaded (1970)

    the velvet underground – loaded (1970)

    Of all the terms I read when scanning the mixed user reviews for Loaded, ‘lukewarm’ struck me the most. This was the Velvet Underground record that intended to leave the warehouse and make love to the radio (almost literally on Rock & Roll). The blueprint foretold breezy, warm, and painless tracks, where the droning sonic […]

    Seth Rice

    January 2, 2023
    30/30, classic review, pop, rock
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