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Fists of Fury: Kamasi Washington's Reprisal
Kamasi Washington’s prescient 2018 album Heaven and Earth sounds as though it was delivered to twenty-first century America from an alien messenger pod…
Jan 29
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November 2023
Used to Be a Cop by the Drive-By Truckers: a Policeman's Desolation Blues
Speaking of cinematic, “Used to Be a Cop” by the Drive-By Truckers from 2010 feels like an entire film compressed into seven wending, snaky minutes. I…
Nov 13, 2023
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October 2023
“Ghost Dance” by Robbie Robertson: The Ancestors Will Live On
“Ghost Dance” by Robbie Robertson: The Ancestors Will Live On Greetings, new subscribers and thank you for the encouragement. I took a hiatus over the…
Oct 14, 2023
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July 2023
Sinead's "The Last Day of Our Acquaintance": A Kiss-Off Into the Air
Sinead’s speaker in “The Last Day of Our Acquaintance” wears her heart on her sleeve—divulging the entire history of a relationship in four and a half…
Jul 31, 2023
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Townes Van Zandt's "Waiting Around to Die"--A Dance with Death
Townes Van Zandt is the anti-John Denver. Both countrified folky types came of age around the same time–the early 70’s–in a wave of singer-songwriters…
Jul 24, 2023
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In the Mouth a Desert: Pavement and the Id
Pavement’s lyrics can lean to the incomprehensibly silly and/or juvenile–as a result you shouldn’t be blamed for viewing Pavement as mostly a band about…
Jul 18, 2023
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Tricky's Christiansands--Master Your Language
Thanks for reading The Feels ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws (aka Tricky) is a figure…
Jul 12, 2023
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June 2023
Hopeless Hope: Alex G's Devastating Portrait of the Fentanyl Crisis
Alex G (Sandy) is a true throwback. All grit and nose to the music grindstone, he keeps churning out songs and albums, year after year. Flying under the…
Jun 26, 2023
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Infinity Repeating: Daft Punk, Nietzsche and the Loop of Life
I’m not one to bow down to an artist or see them as some kind of invisible force of nature. This is applicable to John Lee Hooker, the Beatles, the…
Jun 23, 2023
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Yo La Tengo's Cherry Chapstick: Male Suburban Doldrums
Yo La Tengo Is “Cherry Chapstick” the funniest serious-sounding song ever? Or is it a song sadly bemoaning lack of skills in the dating department…
Jun 20, 2023
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Unsuccessful Blues, the Consolation of Lightnin' Hopkins
“Unsuccessful Blues” Lightnin’ Hopkins, 1949 To state the obvious, one facet of the blues is that it provides consolation for failure and rotten luck…
Jun 5, 2023
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May 2023
Walk Like an Egyptian, Or Else!
As the famous quote goes—to paraphrase—is writing about music a nonsensical act equivalent to dancing about architecture? We should be so lucky. Perhaps…
May 30, 2023
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