Pile, "touched by comfort" Quite a lovely build-up on this one. The urgency that PILE bring to this song, the climax they build towards, doesn't at all pay off on the album, which lurches into a quiet instrumental that they call "fuck the police". But...
Elvis Costello & the Attractions, "New Amsterdam" Costello was in the middle of his 10/10 run of albums (ignoring the covers record), with Get Happy!! being maybe the most distinctive of the lot. It's not my favorite (that's probably This Year's Model followed by Imperial...
High on Fire, "Spewn From the Earth" Matt Pike had a big 2018. In addition to Sleep emerging from a fifteen year, uh, slumber to produce the very good The Sciences, he also put out a High on Fire record, Electric Messiah. High on Fire...
And now, happy birthday to me! This concludes birthday week here at Five Songs. Seam, "Sweet Pea" I think this 1993 EP, Kernel, is actually my favorite Seam release, pound-for-pound. I'm not really sure why that is, exactly. It's not necessarily super differentiated from their...
Crudbump, "Bite That Butt" What can you say in the presence of true art? Screeching Weasel, "Hey Suburbia" I spend a fair bit of time kind of complaining about Screeching Weasel, and that's probably a little unfair. This is from their second record, Boogadaboogadaboogada!, and...
