December 2009
4 posts
“‘The Looking for Gold’ 12” contained no liner notes or...”
– Wikipedia on Fucked Up’s self-released record from 2004. My kind of shit.
Fucked Up - "Year of the Pig"
I bought this record at Academy Records in Williamsburg. It’s a single that was released by Matador right after the band signed with them, and apparently there are lots of versions with differing singles on side B. The title track is a moving peice of angry, yet delicate post-hardcore with lyrics resembling an epic poem. The driving bassline coupled with the sweet, light female voice and...
Medicine Fuck Dream
There’s nothing like discovering this jem of a moody, dreamy folk record. This stuff is reminiscent of the Velvet Underground, less drone and more trip. Like Syd Barret, sentimental but more coherent. And he does a cover of Hank William’s “Lost Highway”! Inside the sleeve is a hard-paper copy of a letter Greg’s dad wrote him after this record came out. He basically...
