Elsewhere: Go Team, Ladybug

I have a very grumpy review of the new Go! Team at Flagpole. There's also one of The Ladybug Transistor from a few weeks back. The latter asks some thinky-thinky questions regular readers might be interested in.

But to say something is cliché doesn't necessarily mean that it's bad. You can put on an old disco album today and hear all its overdone elements as glorious and electrifying, either because time allows us to appreciate the sound outside of its historical context or because it was really good all along. Could this happen with our modern indie music? Could, one day, its corduroy comfortability and its affectless pathology sound vital and important? Is the preponderance of its clichés evidence not of laziness but of quality replicating itself organically?

Labels: flagpole, go team, ladybug transistor, reviews

posted by Mike B. @ 9:33 PM