AF 2018 IN REVIEWOur Favorite Albums and Singles of the Year
Lindsey Rhoades
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ONLY NOISELike A Summer Thursday
One of my favorite descriptions of summer, particularly its languid, melancholy months, comes from Don DeLillo’s first novel, Americana: “Summer unfolds slowly,” DeLillo writes, “a carpeted silence rolling out across expanding steel, and the days begin to rhyme, distance swelling with the bridges,...
Madison Bloom
INTERVIEWHeaters
“Play ‘Free Bird!’ Hey, play some Skynyrd!” It’s surprising to think that after all these years, the above still gets shouted at rock bands who are just trying to finish their set. I personally stopped finding the line funny around age 14, but the same cannot be said for the sad twenty-somethings...
Madison Bloom
TRACK REVIEWAmen Dunes "Lonely Richard"
In 2006, during the Northeast's creepiest and most beautiful time of year--fall--Damon McMahon started recording his tightly knotted, introspective guitar melodies in the Catskills, never intending them for public consumption. Thus Amen Dunes was born, and thus--essentially--it remains: the music...
Carena Liptak
TRACK REVIEWAmen Dunes "I Can't Dig It"
The two tracks off Amen Dunes' forthcoming album Love that have surfaced ("Lilac in Hand" and "Lonely Richard") are both on the murky side of things, but neither can touch the newest single, "I Can't Dig It" for sheer liberated noise. Lo-fi and howly, the track is an ingloriously atonal celebration...
Carena Liptak
SHOW REVIEWVår
On Saturday I had every intention of seeing Gap Dream and Grass Widow but had absolutely no energy left for anything not resembling sleep. My family was still in town and while it was wonderful it was still totally draining. I did make sure to catch the Sacred Bones showcase on Sunday at...
Lindsey Rhoades