Marnie Stern
In Advance of the Broken Arm
2007 | Kill Rock Stars
Marnie Stern is a shredder, a very cute shredder bursting with incredible ideas and power. This is an album that sounds exciting and more on track with what I like to hear from new artists rather than the watered down indie rock that sounds like 50 average bands rolled-up into one. Stern takes chances everywhere covering epic prog breakdowns to full-on art rock blasts of noise and melody climaxing with jagged drumming. Music needs more people like Marnie Stern.
Like many solo efforts she does run into a few roadblocks, but they’re forgettable. Thanks to great tunes like “Grapefruit,” which could pass as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs if they weren’t so wimpy in the studio, the finger tapping madness of “Absorb Those Numbers” and the metal riffage on “Every Single Line Means Something” you'll feel like picking up the guitar immediately. This is an album that’s inspiring and fresh; you feel closer to the artist at the end. Marnie’s world is one that I could never even pretend to create, but she makes me want to try even harder.
Wolf & Cub's "This Mess" is from their debut album Vessels (4AD) and is out now. It's a really, really good album..for fans of DFA 1979.
A great video accompanying one of the standout tracks from Everything Last Winter.
Directed by Jaron Albertin
"In the Morning" is one of my favorite songs from last year's So This is Goodbye.
to Vancouver:
For
the record, Minneapolis to Vancouver = 26hrs of pure little ones
enjoyment! We did this trek months ago during the winter and we must
say it's much more enjoyable sans snowstorms. We finished our first
book on cd together, Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A
Low Culture Manifesto. At some point we posed the idea of installing a
sensory deprivation tank in the van. Here's a rough schematic...
Transparent Things finally saw a domestic release last month. The album soars with Krautrock jams and funky minimalist groves.
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