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Sleater-Kinney, all hands on the bad one
1, 2 betsy, you can get to heaven with a three-chord song.

Bikini Kill, The First Two Records
the best, the best, the best bikini kill. so smart(ass) it hurts. anger + noise somehow become...music? or just the voice in my head as i ride the t?
mood: righteous homicidal rage at this fucking society.

Air, Premiers Symptomes
the supermarket music of heaven
mood: getting jiggy, euro style

Yo la Tengo, And then nothing turned itself inside out
the band you've been waiting your whole life. i'm in love. I Can Hear the Heart... is killer too.
sweet night time music, library music, coffeeshop music...

Michelle Malone, Beneath the Devil Moon
definitely her bluze/rawk best
mood: you feel... american

Kristen Hersh, Hips and Makers
ironic vivid personae in one bitterhoney album
a hot burning liquor, delivered aurally for what ails you

Ferron, Not a Still Life
truths about love etc., birkenstock style with a voice like warm stones
lemon zinger

four albums owned by roommates i wouldn't have heard otherwise

*1 Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On a Gravel Road
stamp your feet and go mmm'hmm, i was done wrong. lu's a guilty pleasure, cuz she's almost country and i could be shot for less.
mood: the guilty pleasure of other people's unhappiness; or a roadtrip (perfect title for it)

*2 Nick Drake, Way to Blue: An Introduction to Nick Drake
i can't possibly review this album. nick, nick, why.

*3 Cocteau Twins, Four Calendar Cafe
gotta love the album art. oddly dark for such high vocals.
mood: i'm working and shouldn't distract myself, but i need my senses pleased.

*4 The Smiths, Singles
i was musically isolated before college. these feel brand new to me.
mood: you want to be dancing at man ray, but can't.

7 Year Bitch, Gato Negro
i sing the guitar electric. intense driving tunes to wrap your head around. fucked up boys and a fucked up head.
mood: rrrrowr....

Indigo Girls, Come On Now Social
ig reinvent themselves in stereo.
mood: it makes even cleaning your car fun.

Bis, Social Dancing
smartass coy joy
mood: aural sugar.

Cat Power, Moon Pix
possibly a perfect mood record.
mood: an ache inside you don't want satisfied

heavens to betsy, calculated
ecstatic young rage.
mood: gnashed teeth against your juice box.

Sleater-Kinney, Get Up (single)
a perfect three song vacation
beverage: cherry coke

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Boatman's Call.
dark and glorious ballads.
mood: that burnt metal taste of rotten love

Tiger Trap, s/t
singsongy joy music. bop along w/o shame.
beverage: lemonade & tequila

Cadallaca,Introducing...
fun fun fun with tragic undertones. hurts like great blues, sounds like great pop.
beverage: gin and tonic

Lunachicks,Luxury Problem
pure punk brats and they're badass grownup ladies, yeah!
beverage: hot shots

veda hille.spine.
emily dickinson + piano + vox. fir trees and thunder.
beverage: good strong tea, milk no sugar. or ice water poured over moist hot summer skin.

bonfire madigan. from the burnpile.
aggro put to positive use. rock me with a cello.
mood: cider mulled with a burning poker

team dresch. personal best.
best album ever on a car ride.
mood: coffee

belle and sebastien. the boy with the arab strap
dulcet english boy (some girl) vocals and a disarmingly gentle sound.
mood: sucking limes and smiling a little sarcastically.
 

Anonymous 4, an english ladymass
a sacred teenage girl and re-thought ecstasy.
mood: stolen communion wine: sweet and profane

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