Entertainment For Lively Minds
Thank God you don't have to read my mail
Posted by David Hepworth on 3 July 2009 - 12:48pm.
I received a press release just now. The first paragraph goes like this:
"Year In The Kingdom unravels some kind of galactic wilderness. Tillman's 6th album lyrically borders on mystic; proffering a transcendent union, an effortlessness. Strange and honest, this song cycle inhabits it's own idea-scape; one seemingly obsessed with wrestling death. These are afterlife dialogues of a mysterious future. Celestial badlands."
Should I give it a spin?
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Send it in to Private Eye...
... and claim your £10. Job done & a nice little side-line.
Could help you pay for a Spurs season ticket....
Before I forget
Don't bother with the CD, it'll be an hour of your life you won't get back.
You mean you can resist
a "song cycle (that) inhabits it's own idea-scape..."
It could be Fleet Foxes meet Harry Secombe in a sonic tapestry that says take me as I am - nothing more, nothing less.
it fits
This inspired me to look up Mr. J. Tillman. He is well within the Word demographic. It's on Bella Union and he has a beard. Spotify has his previous effort, Vacilando Territory Blues, and I am rather enjoying it.
He's actually a member
of the Fleet Foxes. Or his brother is or something like that.
Does he do
Queen medleys?
Better than the previous effort:
"Year In The Kingdom unfurls like some kind of lactating wilderbeast. Tillman's 6th album lyrically borders on the mundane; proffering the transport and workers union, a pretentiousnesslessness. Odd, bona fide, sounding bon iver, this tune chain lives up its own backside; one apparently obsessed with wrestling tagnuts. These are after hours ramblings of a mysterious future late night visit to the kebab or curry house. Gastronomic badlands."
Ack!
Just...choked...on....Cup a Soup. Stop it. That was brilliant, Bisto. Brilliant!
Pure Genius Bisto
A career move beckons I feel.
I wouldn't give it a spin
It sounds like it might open another dimension.
What were the other 5 like?
and if you didn't hear any of them, you can probably continue unaware without any real risks.
Sometime we must talk a programmer into writing
the press release equivalent of the Postmodernism Generator-
see "The Economy of Consensus: Subcapitalist narrative in the works of Madonna" at
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
And then DH can retaliate ...
idea-scape
I particularly like "idea-scape", well, when I say like, I mean "detest".
"Minor Works" is worth a listen though.
I think Idea-scape might be something to do
with being "thought Leader" a phrase I seen bandied around quite abit lately.
another one for Private Eye
From Amazon.co.uk's review of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot:
Mixed by studio experimentalist Jim O'Rourke and produced by the band, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot harkens back to a time when the words "pop" and "sonic adventurism" weren't mutually exclusive. The Beatles and Kurt Cobain knew this, and clearly so do Jeff Tweedy and company. --Keith Moerer
'Sonic adventurism' being Pitchfork-era hack-speak for 'uses glockenspiel'. Also, it's two words, not one.
The PR has obviously used David Bowie's cut-up technique
He / she has taken a proper press release, cut it up into small phrases, then stuck it back together.
Give it a spin:
Open the window, lean out , and give it a spin.
What gets me about blurbs like this....
....is that it just makes me absolutely determined not to listen to it. Whereas if it said "track two is a toe-tapper" I might try it.
"latest waxing from
today's most swingingest beat combo!!"
try it now
Sounds like...
widescreen rock, conjuring up vistas of boundless...oh, sorry. I just bored myself to death.
I've seen him live ...
actually not bad. (Coat on etc.)
If you read on further, does it contain the line...
".....'s voice has been compared to Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley"? If so, avoid.