When I heard Takashi Murakami’s retrospective The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg was being installed at Chicagos’s Museum of Contemporary Art, my well being shot up a few points. No longer living a train ride away from the Windy City, I made plans with myself to get my butt up to the museum as soon ...
3/7 Myths 002. Upon initial listen to the four tracks on the EP, I was slightly underwhelmed and a part of me was relieved that there were only 14 minutes of sound. Natalie Mering’s voice (Weyes Blood) seemed to blend together in a redundant wave of high pitched sadness that I didn’t really understand. ...
Rating 6/7 I was looking for some music to start writing about, as it has been quite some time since I've written a review, and I decided to smack my sophomore slump in the rump by writing about the band Goat and their new album Requiem, released on October 7. If I could describe how I felt when ...
ex·trav·a·gance - excessive elaborateness of style, speech, or action. In a review I read about Urban Flora, it was described as “R&B-infused downtempo electronic music stripped of extravagance.” I got a small nudge from my subconscious that something “stripped of its extravagance” ...
