Metric – Fantasies Album Review

I rarely write negative reviews. Instead I discard the album from my memory as quickly as possible. Even the act of THINKING about unfortunate music releases for too long exhausts me. Drains all positive areas of the brain and replaces those little capsules of light with “….UGH!”. This affect is completely and incredibly magnified when [...]

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PJ & Thom

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haunt |hônt; hänt|
verb [ trans. ]
(of a ghost) manifest itself at (a place) regularly
• (of a person) frequent (a place)
• be persistently and disturbingly present in (something)
• be persistently in the mind of (someone)
PJ Harvey & Thom Yorke – This Mess We’re In
- this song, again, and again, and again.-

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It’s Blitz! It’s Blitz! It’s Blitz! It’s on repeat!

Good god, again, I’m sorry for the lack of updates. I wish one of my classes was devoted to “blog updating”, because so much has been going on in the world of music lately, I just need to sit down and get it all out on here. Firstly, though, I have to devote a little [...]

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More Metric Sneak Peaks!

On a much brighter note, Metric has released a few more exciting sneak-peaks, including the official name of the new album Fantasies (I can’t tell if thats funny or ironic or what, I mean it is quite different from previously titled albums like Grow Up and Blow Away and Old World [...]

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Akira and Grapevine Fires

Last night I watched Akira for the very first time; this morning I finished reading the essay by Thomas Lamarre titled Born of Trauma: Akira and Capitalist Modes of Destruction. This evening I watched the new Death Cab video of “Grapevine Fires” and couldnt help but make a comparison between the atomic/psychic bomb theme of [...]

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