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The former Helium and Ex-Hex frontwoman (she's been in Autoclave and Wild Flag too) has a new solo album out.
I have been a fan of Mary's for so long, I saw Helium way back (I think they were touring with her ex-boyfriend/bandmate's other band, Polvo) and the experience was galvanizing.
This is a song about persevering even after you've lost it all. The string arrangements add a tinge of sadness, like R.E.M.'s "Nightswimming" does. It's the sound of driving across a desert, having lost the people you love and waking to the feeling that your future is a giant, wide-open blank space.
Not all guitar heroes wear capes. And Mary is definitely one of those.
Feb 23, 2024
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I can never talk enough about Mary Lattimore's music. She's such a genius, and her vision and artistry is everything. She's been the soundtrack to my life since around 2015. I remember discovering her when I was on holiday in Rome and it was just so fitting. I've been returning to her music every now and again, and I’m always surprised with how she can make me feel so in touch with my humanity.Â
Recently, I've been listening to her  2016 album, Music Inspired, by Philip Garrel’s La RĂ©vĂ©lateur and it's just haunting.Â
Apr 26, 2024
the sound: new classical? almost like a harpist went and covered songs by sufjan, cassandra jenkins, and beach house all wrapped into one–but making them wholly original.
harpist Mary Lattimore creates some of the best relaxation music that I have ever heard. this music has the power to heal, the power to recall the most nostalgic memories, and the power to induce trances.
also just look at her album artwork by Becky Suss...
Sep 3, 2024
It's haunting and melancholy but very passionately performed. If you like Christine and the Queens, Holly Humberstone, or Holly Herndon for that matter, you'll dig this probably (but put through a Celtic filter). Came out in April and I keep returning to it. Especially "Life of the Forbidden," "Wee Rosebud," "Into This, Called Lonliness," and the closing track "S.O.S. Song of the Sword" is VERY on the Kate Bush tip.
Jul 12, 2024
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Hey tyler hopefully this doesn’t violate some PI.FYI golden rule
But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here:
https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/
The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s.
Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha).
For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I can’t wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! ❤️
Mar 27, 2024
“Songs Of a Lost World” coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 🖤
The fr FW Me Friday the 13th the world was looking for
Sep 14, 2024
I will fail to explain just how much this band meant to me in the 90s.
So I will borrow from AV Club who did a fine job of distilling it:
“Unwound is the best band of the ’90s. Not just because of how prolific, consistent, and uncompromising it was, but because of how perfectly Unwound nested in a unique space between some of the most vital forms of music that decade: punk, post-rock, indie rock, post-hardcore, slow-core, and experimental noise. That jumble of subgenres doesn’t say much; in fact, it falls far short of what Unwound truly synthesized and stood for. Unwound stood for Unwound. But in a decade where most bands were either stridently earnest or stridently ironic, Unwound wasn’t stridently anything. It was only itself. In one sense Unwound was the quietest band of the ’90s, skulking around like a nerdy terror cell. In another sense it was the loudest, sculpting raw noise into contorted visions of inner turmoil and frustration.”
R.I.P. Vern Rumsey.
This is their finest song, from their finest album.
I really can’t say enough about the sheer bloody minded genius of this group. 🖤
Mar 23, 2024