I feel like that band's frontman, Britt Daniel, has turned "mood-setting closing track" into something of a cottage industry.
The best of these should make you want to replay the album, no?
"Everybody's at disadvantage/speaking with their second language"
May 6, 2024
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Nobody knows how to end an album on a particularly wistful note like my pal Britt Daniel. âVittorio Eâ is like the first of many such closers. đ
Apr 1, 2024
Obsessive with this song at the moment, I canât get it out of my head, theyâve laced this song with something.
Itâs like if Michael Stipe of REM fronted Slowdive and told them how to write indie pop melodies with their silly guitar pedals.
Listening through some more of their stuff after finding them through instagram earlier this week but this track will not escape any singular judgement I have on their other tracks- theyâre all comparable to how this song makes me feel and therefore cannot champion it.
Oct 4, 2024
A song from my pal Britt Daniel about being logical in a relationship, but nothing is really logical. Trying to do something to be at least conventional or rational, but failing in that effort. Emotion and heart â€ïž always wins out.
âNo more riding the brakes.â
TUFF. A musical beast. Itâs like twice as long live and often an encore or last song of the regular set.
Aug 15, 2024
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Hey tyler hopefully this doesnât 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 canât wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! â€ïž
Mar 27, 2024
âSongs Of a Lost Worldâ coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 đ€
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:
âUnwound is the best band of the â90s. 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 doesnât 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 wasnât stridently anything. It was only itself. In one sense Unwound was the quietest band of the â90s, 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.â
R.I.P. Vern Rumsey.
This is their finest song, from their finest album.
I really canât say enough about the sheer bloody minded genius of this group. đ€
Mar 23, 2024