No holds barred and musical gluttony rules!Īfter 2019’s The Center Won’t Hold and the unfortunate departure of Janet Weiss, I thought Sleater-Kinney as I knew was done. This double-LP is overloaded with material and every track is nearly as chock full of ideas. The only difference is that they did this jam sesh over Zoom. It feels like a party – one where a bunch of accomplished musicians just jam all night, until the sun comes up. These dudes could trade farts over four-track and I’d probably listen to it and cry from the sheer humanity it contains.īlind Date Party is a bit different in that it’s Oldham, Callahan, and a bunch of Drag City label mates playing covers. Who knows? What I do know is that the Superwolf/Superwolves combo is gold. I wonder if this past year’s output partially did the same for Oldham. That first incarnation pulled Sweeney from the depths of couch-surfing and anonymity. In Superwolves, Oldham and Sweeney return to one of the hidden gems of the Bonnie “Prince” Billy discography: 2005’s Superwolf. What was Will Oldham doing during the first year of the pandemic? Apparently he was recording two double-LPs with his friends, most notably Matt Sweeney and Bill Callahan. Will Oldham – Superwolves / Blind Date Party All that said, the standout on this record and all over the music world is probably “Hold U” – a song that captures her depth and talent for making you want to dance through the pain and joy love brings. However, unlike Snail Mail who sticks to her new script throughout, De Souza bounces all over the place with the aesthetic that earned her notice from Saddle Creek coming trough (“Real Pain,” “Way Out,” and “Kill Me). Any Shape opens with “17” which is a full-on synth pop hit lost in the 80’s. Some of those rock with increased muscle than previous releases (“Bad Dream”), but it’s the dabbling into pop music that is most striking. In Any Shape You Take, De Souza demonstrates the songs she crafted over those three years. Of course, she’s rediscovering riot grrrl and fully discovering Nirvana at the moment, so connections are easy. It’s actually one of the rare moments when my daughter and I have connected on a musician or band. Of course, De Souza’s debut had been out for almost three years, but I’m glad I found her. How many times we will have to rise from the ashes and what courage it will take.Ġ3-01 Savannah, GA - Lodge of Sorrows 03-03 Okeechobee, FL - Okeechobee Festival 03-11 Birmingham, AL - Saturn 03-12 New Orleans, LA - Toulouse Theatre 03-14-17 Austin, TX - SXSW 03-18 Fort Worth, TX - Tulips (Southside Spillover) 03-19 Houston, TX - Secret Group 05-13 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court Block Party 05-17 Madison, WI - The Majestic 05-18 Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall 05-19 Detroit, MI - El Club 05-20 Toronto, Ontario - Opera House 05-22 Boston, MA - The Royale 05-23 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer 05-24 New York, NY - Webster Hall 05-26 Hamden, CT - Space Ballroom 05-30 Washington, D.C.I found Indigo De Souza this year when her debut ( I Love My Mom) was reissued by Saddle Creek – much the same way I discovered Black Belt Eagle Scout. No one can prepare us for how insane it is to be alive. This song is a love letter to everyone’s inner child. It’s also about how heartbreaking that is to start as a child with vivid curiosity, innocent imagination and joy, and for the world to end up being kind of brutal to be a part of. When you’re young, you don’t know any better, but you learn from your experiences, and then you become somebody who’s been alive and learning. But if I hadn’t been through those things, I wouldn’t be who I am now. I endured some heavy darkness and dysfunction when I was a teenager. A lot of the lyrics are a nod to the idea that your experiences make you who you are. I was sitting in my house and it kind of flowed right to me as if it had already been written by some other force. This song felt really emotionally intense for me when I wrote it. My growing up defeated by a world brutally littered with trash, violence and grief, and somehow finding beauty, purpose, and boundless love existing in the same place. “Younger and Dumber” is a flood beam of my emotional and spiritual human experience.
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