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I love the music of Annette Peacock. She is one of the true great freaks of music. She’s a poet! A composer! She also is one of the first people to ever run her vocals through a Moog synthesizer. I’m really into this live album she made with the pianist Paul Bley in 1969. It’s called the Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show. It’s so insanely beautiful. My favorite song off of that record is “Mr. Joy,” which is basically pure romance to me. It sounds like what it feels like to be in love! Peacock’s vocals are distorted through the Moog, creating this cozy and weird level of dissonance. It’s perfect.
Jun 20, 2025
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It’s the instruments and sounds that does it. It sounds apocalyptic. Lots of BOOM CRASH and deep hums. Hums so deep and visceral that you start to wonder if this is what Gabriel’s horn would sound like if it were Judgement Day. It’s loud and continues to get louder and louder until you start to feel claustrophobic. Your heart starts racing and maybe you sweat a little bit. Then it manages to reach the deepest parts of your heart and you start to empathize with Joy. This must be how Joy feels being made to live with the fact that she will probably never experience a life of self-expression, vulnerability, and contentment. Her essence sucked out of her. A woman named Joy who never experienced joy in all her 30 years of living–how ironic. At the end, it’s got you looking up at the hollow sky, feeling disconnected and disillusioned, too.
Apr 26, 2024
Vocalist Patty Waters straddles approaches that are something like a lounge jazz and a vocal avant-gardism, singing to stripped down instrumentals playing familiar then dissonant intervals, often ones that feel just slightly off of what you expect—the effect is something like holding an old photograph in your hand and noticing the material distortions. What sounds sentimental in a Nat King Cole or King Moody croon, becomes haunting or grin under Patty Water’s command.
I especially get that effect from this album, College Days, in which her voice warmly vibrates at the center, with the instruments falling into the background. It’s perfect rainy day music from her, but this album also has a lot of her screaming and using her voice in a remarkable way, it definitely draws comparison to someone like Meredith Monk, where breathe voice and tone become their own force. This track Wild is the Wind is the noisiest and reminds me of Arthur Russell at some points.
Reccomend if you like: Joan La Barbera, Bjork, Shelley Hirsch, Fiona Apple, Meredith Monk.
Jan 9, 2024
Ever wanted to latently drape yourself around your room, yearning for something you felt you were promised? Ever wanted to imagine yourself ruiner of all things pure? Ever wanted to be an “absinthe-dulled odalisque,” reaking havoc on the kingdom? Well, do I have the album for you…
Jan 22, 2024
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This is one of my favorite artists. I found out about Onfim because I was trying to learn a little bit about Old Church Slavonic. Onfim was a little boy who did his great works on birch bark c. 13th century. Location: Novgorod. Onfim drew awesome self portraits where he is on a horse, killing his teacher with a pitchfork. Onfim did most of his great works at age 7. His dream job was to be a famous warrior. I wish I could draw like him. He was so uninhibited.Â
Jun 20, 2025
Recently, I decided that after almost three years of being single, I was no longer interested in being an itinerant sex crystal. It was a pretty fun time, but I was ready for something more. This meant it was time to get a boyfriend! I met my boyfriend because we were set up on a blind date. It's awesome to be in a relationship. I would recommend getting a boyfriend. My boyfriend and I just went to Paris!
Jun 20, 2025
I am not sure why every cool 22 year old girl having a martini in Chinatown on a Friday night does not have this book in her purse. It's one of my favorite short story collections. Jen George’s fiction is whip-smart, funny, sexy, and gross. This book is like Weetzie Bat meets Rabelais. Yum.Â
Jun 20, 2025