Many people pointed out to me that my voice came burbling out all up close and demented (not good) towards the end of the last podcast, and also that there was a significant discrepancy between the music and voice volume. Well I'm on it like a sonnet, and the next podcast will be gleamingly produced. I'm even making a screen thing with an old pair of tights to filter out the popping sounds. Check out how good it sounds on Friday.
#24 Pure X - Pleasure
and the WTF album cover of 2011 award goes to...
I'd wager that almost every critic who has a go at certain artists for being generic or copyists makes exceptions for bands that peddle whatever particular formula is that critic's kryptonite (it makes hypocrites of us, of course, but hey, spineless double standards are part and parcel of music journalism amirite?). The Galaxie 500 sound is my purest kryptonite, and young Texan band Pure X lay on the Galaxie 500 shtick so thickly that I hope they never ever change. I want them to continue forever making records with keening guitars that move like a slow motion tsunami of molasses and double-tracked vocals that echo their news from a huge cavern containing all the lonely teens.
I know that my blog is probably full of instances where I call out bands that I don't like for being formulaic. And I know I will do it again. All I can do is hold up my hands and admit I'm a big fat hypocrite. Now excuse me while I play 'twisted mirror' again and wallow in a big luxurious vat of liquefied misery.
MP3: Pure X-Twisted Mirror
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This really really DOES sound like G500
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