New records this month from Sea And Cake, Dino Jr., and<\/i> Wilco. Elliot Smith even manages to assemble a new one from the great beyond. What a magical month!<\/p>\n
Update<\/strong>: Wilco - Sky Blue Sky<\/strong> This is great. 3\/4 through and it's already my favorite record of the year. Pretty bold characterization... hope the feeling lasts. \"I've Got a Million Things That I'd Rather Do \/ Than To Play Rock n Roll For You\".<\/p>\n Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond<\/strong> I like it much better than Green Mind and whatever that one after Green Mind was. It feels more like a band, and less like a J solo project. It's like 1990 all over again.<\/p>\n Elliot Smith - New Moon<\/strong> These are the things that didn't make it onto any of his other records - demos, alternate versions, etc.. They're almost uniformly bleak - sometimes strikingly so. He sings about addiction, death and the expectations he couldn't meet, as he always did, but these are much more raw, unpolished, direct. Ouch. There's a surprising, and damned fine cover of Big Star's Thirteen<\/i>, too. \"I Got Nothing That I Want To Do \/ More Than Make Another Sordid 'Fuck You' To Play\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New records this month from Sea And Cake, Dino Jr., and Wilco. Elliot Smith even manages to assemble a new one from the great beyond. What a magical month! Update: First listens: Sea And Cake - Everybody *sigh*. They've lost the electronics that they'd really gotten into for the last couple of records, but the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFirst listens:
\nSea And Cake - Everybody<\/strong> *sigh*. They've lost the electronics that they'd really gotten into for the last couple of records, but the songs just aren't there. Sam Prekop sings the same lyrics in the same way, just like he always does - I'd almost given up on him do anything else - but the band just isn't grabbing me anymore. Oh well. I'll always have Nassau and The Biz.<\/p>\n