Apparat

I wrote about the new Apparat album. I liked it ok, but not as much as I like Moderat albums, which I more or less said.

Apparat - LP5

Kevin Morby

I reviewed the new Kevin Morby album for PopMatters. It was a draining experience, but also a rewarding one, and that description applies both to the listening and the writing parts of the task. 

Kevin Morby - Oh My God Review

This is also the 300th post on the blog, so yay for that.

Fennesz

I wrote some thoughts about the new Fennesz album, Agora for PopMatters. This new gig writing album reviews is interesting, because there is such a variety of genres to write about, but I particularly like writing about electronic music. It allows you to be be both abstract and fairly specific at the same time, so there's some latitude for creative thinking, rather than simply writing the equivalent of a book report. The review is here. It gets a bit, um, pretentious, but it was liberating to let my mind go to some places it doesn't get to go much any more, post-graduate school. I also really liked the album, which makes it easier to write sometimes, even though it's still fun to go to town on something I really dislike, but as I get older that just feels gratuitously mean.
 

Ancient II

(acrylic & oil on canvas panel, 10 x 10)

Ancient I

(acrylic & oil on canvas panel, 10 x 10)

Spring II

(acrylic on canvas panel, 10 x10)

The Mess of Northern Spring

(acrylic on canvas paper, 9 x 12)