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Labor Fruit
My feature on the independent-label band Enon -- highly recommended, BTW -- is out today.
When I write one of these things, I listen to the record over and over. You can really tell how much you like something when you have to listen to it obsessively for work. I went in to Borders late the other night to look for something to review for Punk Planet and they were playing Hocus-Pocus. I wasn't just professionally pleased. I was excited to hear the record in a new context.
Then again, the band's driving force John Schmersal was in Brainiac, responsible for my absolute favorite song I discovered by downloading -- legally, of course, from Epitonic -- "Flash Ram".
It's funny. When you do an interview for a feature, in which you're only going to end up selecting a few quotes from a great many, you never know what's going to be most valuable until you start writing. The comment about video games seemed like the one least related to the record when I was conducting the interview. I regarded as one of those necessary icebreakers. But by the time I was done, it proved to be the key to everything.
When I write one of these things, I listen to the record over and over. You can really tell how much you like something when you have to listen to it obsessively for work. I went in to Borders late the other night to look for something to review for Punk Planet and they were playing Hocus-Pocus. I wasn't just professionally pleased. I was excited to hear the record in a new context.
Then again, the band's driving force John Schmersal was in Brainiac, responsible for my absolute favorite song I discovered by downloading -- legally, of course, from Epitonic -- "Flash Ram".
It's funny. When you do an interview for a feature, in which you're only going to end up selecting a few quotes from a great many, you never know what's going to be most valuable until you start writing. The comment about video games seemed like the one least related to the record when I was conducting the interview. I regarded as one of those necessary icebreakers. But by the time I was done, it proved to be the key to everything.
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(Anonymous) 2003-09-25 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)But I think we can still appreciate the totality of music in our lives. Charlie mentioned in an email to me that I grew up in a particular era that impacts on my relationship to downloading music, but one area where I ALWAYS feel even older than my age/era is that I am a constant radio listener. And one of my favorite parts of the digital age is all the radio I get to listen to, sans commercials. There's all those channels on the digital cable teevee, and all the ones on MusicMatch, including channels I create myself. In all of them, as in all radio that I love, I'm not hearing music as individual works of art, but hearing songs as parts of ongoing setlists. Oftentimes I don't even know what song I'm listening to, although digital stuff helps there because the songtitle is usually somewhere on a screen.
Anyway, I get enjoyment wafting over my being, with the special buzz when a song I'm not expecting comes on, but it's true, I don't get obsessively involved with any artist/album. Which may be why I love Sleater-Kinney beyond their apparent worth: they're the band I actually pay attention to.
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