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I’m not sure which other artists have released their best work on their 5th studio album (after four priors that were consistently and increasingly amazing)
It may not be her “New York album” per se given its recording provenance at Linford Manor in Milton Keynes
But it is damn sure *MY* PJ Harvey NYC album
I also love the nod to Patti Smith (she was always lurking there, just below the surface) on “Horses In My Dreams” 🖤
This is kind of about you
This is kind of about me
We just kinda lost our way
We were looking to be free 🪽
A top ten all time album for me
Oct 22, 2024
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I couldn't choose between this and Pod by The Breeders but I linked pod in my last rec, so here’s PJ Harvey. I used this record (especially 50 ft queenie) as production refeeence for the drums on my record. Albini really was the master of drum sound. Heartbroken.
May 8, 2024
One of the least talked-about GOAT double albums ever.
I think I caught the band live for the first time on the “Sister” tour that preceded it - I’d never seen or heard anyone abuse guitars in such a creative and unusual way before that (or since).
Not a dud track on it.
A mind-blowing, life-altering, perspective-forming monster of a release. I was and have remained a fan ever since (and Kim Gordon is a goddess, I’ll go down with that particular ship forever).
When someone says “best NYC art rock” this is automatically my go-to reaction. Like a gallery showing for a new artist you can’t wait to tell your friends about. 🖤
P.S.: Yes it sucks that they're gone and I blame Thurston, of course.
Oct 8, 2024
(the Bowie cover from the 90s) is excellent, but I’ve done nothing but listen to the Modern Lovers since my move to New York even if they’re more Boston. Had a realization that punk rock ranges in quality, but proto-punk from garage rock is great and post-punk is great.
Aug 23, 2024
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Hey tyler hopefully this doesn’t violate some PI.FYI golden rule
But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here:
https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/
The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s.
Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha).
For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I can’t wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! ❤️
Mar 27, 2024
“Songs Of a Lost World” coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 🖤
The fr FW Me Friday the 13th the world was looking for
Sep 14, 2024
I will fail to explain just how much this band meant to me in the 90s.
So I will borrow from AV Club who did a fine job of distilling it:
“Unwound is the best band of the ’90s. Not just because of how prolific, consistent, and uncompromising it was, but because of how perfectly Unwound nested in a unique space between some of the most vital forms of music that decade: punk, post-rock, indie rock, post-hardcore, slow-core, and experimental noise. That jumble of subgenres doesn’t say much; in fact, it falls far short of what Unwound truly synthesized and stood for. Unwound stood for Unwound. But in a decade where most bands were either stridently earnest or stridently ironic, Unwound wasn’t stridently anything. It was only itself. In one sense Unwound was the quietest band of the ’90s, skulking around like a nerdy terror cell. In another sense it was the loudest, sculpting raw noise into contorted visions of inner turmoil and frustration.”
R.I.P. Vern Rumsey.
This is their finest song, from their finest album.
I really can’t say enough about the sheer bloody minded genius of this group. 🖤
Mar 23, 2024