"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." - Carl Schurz

"The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time." - George Sutherland
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." - Edmund Burke

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Imperfect

Occasionally, not often, my intuitive method for finding new music steers me wrong.

Thursday is a good example of this. While there were hints of tantalizing complexity in each song, they were consistently drowned out by undisciplined cacophony. I think this is a case of too many musicians stepping all over one another. It was frustrating - like someone who is very attractive and willing to sleep with you but too shy to let you see them naked. Maybe I'll feel differently after a second listen.

Oh, well. I'm not afraid to take risks if it means finding something amazing from time to time. It happens frequently enough.

Hot Chip's new album is turning out to be quite different from their debut and better than I hoped. And quite a relief after listening to the Thursday album.

Today's listening:

  1. Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped
  2. Cyann & Ben: Spring
  3. Neil Young: Living With War
  4. Silver Jews: Tanglewood Numbers
  5. Thursday: A City by the Light Divided
  6. Hot Chip: The Warning
  7. Lansing-Dreiden: The Dividing Island

Posted by Jonathan at 11:16 PM

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