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Why oh why did Paper Thin Walls get the rough­est redesign since Chris Ott beset Per­fect Sound For­ev­er with mono­chro­mat­ic grey? I love the new fea­tures [well, at least the stream­ing album stuff] but it’s pre­sent­ed in such a jum­ble. And now my old home the Bull­horn looks bland­er than a bowl of cool por­ridge.Con­tin­ue read­ing “You’ve got your cher­ry bomb!”

Remem­ber how I was just bitch­ing about the sor­ry state of affairs Music ’07? Well, I think I’m half right. The New Pornog­ra­phers’ Chal­lengers phones in more of the same mid-tem­po pop they record­ed for Twin Cin­e­ma. The best part of “My Rights ver­sus Yours” steals the open­ing gui­tar chords from “Good Day Sun­shine.” CheckCon­tin­ue read­ing “Remem­ber that some folks work on the weekend.”

San­sho the Bailiff does­n’t haunt me like Uget­su, but Mizoguchi does things with light and tex­ture unlike any oth­er film­mak­er. Rec­om­mend­ed. I’ve been in a mid-year rut with music. I’m dis­ap­point­ed in the New Pornog­ra­phers’ Chal­lengers on first lis­ten; I haven’t heard any good buzz about Spoon’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga [aside from theCon­tin­ue read­ing “Anomie and bon­homie isn’t just an album, it’s a lifestyle.”

Since my last post I feel like I’ve need­ed some­one to RSS-cue me. I’ve been swept up by my new job pret­ty com­plete­ly, engrossed in Joshua Fer­ris’ amaz­ing new nov­el, and writ­ing brief reviews for Paper Thin Walls when I get chance [Keep an eye out for Low and Von Suden­fed.] I’ve missed shows ICon­tin­ue read­ing “It seems like every­thing is last week’s news these days.”

The new­found appre­ci­a­tion for CAN’s sec­ond wave is a con­found­ing piece of revisionism.