Tom Breihan

Meant to get into Dalek, but where they're coming from is so fundamentally different from what Ghostemane is doing that it just didn't fit.

That's not going to happen.

way the fuck worse. come on. you know this.

I'd like it if they made an album that wasn't boring.

how did i forget about "lockjaw"

Fun fact: I wrote some zingers for at least one of the endings here.

I would be so OK with this.

Solange.

Yes, and you should read it. (It's more about the Strokes and surrounding brouhaha tho.)

It's Waxahatchee. I'm pretty sure she's the only person ever to get AOTW three times. Would probably be Young Thug if his release schedule wasn't so chaotic.

We like corny-ass plays for the cheap seats over here. Spoiler alert: the Haim record is great.

Murphy was talking that shit, tho not directly about the Rapture, back when LCD were first active, too. I loved it. I interviewed him when Sound of Silver was coming out, and he was like, "These bands like Bloc Party are so nice to us, and I just want to DESTROY them."

I miss the Brewer's Art. My old roommate was a manager there. I wonder if Herc actually did fuck Colin Farrell up on the set of Miami Vice.

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If any of these guys get huge, you won't have to; they'll find you. Other than that: Maybe Ugly God? If you feel like it? There's nothing you urgently have to check out.

That's better than "made into you," which is how I've been saying it in my head.

Well, hell, man. Thanks for writing such a thoughtful and eloquent response to my probably-unfair review. And thanks for making exactly the record that you wanted to make. That's always the right move, whatever some asshole with a laptop thinks of it. The album so far hasn't worked for me, but, as evidenced by this comments section*, it's working for a whole lot of other people. If you're up for it sometime, I'd love to have a longer conversation, on the record or off, about the way these biographical narratives shape record reviews or about the role of topicality in white-dude music or about all the lyrical details that I didn't pick up. * (I am once again pleasantly shocked at how mellow and articulate and cool the Stereogum readers have been in this here comments section. I knew I'd be in the minority on this album, and I am. But I was also expecting to be fully roasted here, and that mostly hasn't happened. Instead, it's been a great conversation to watch unfold. So uh good job guys.)

No. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/4/26/rivers-end-in-early-1995-a/

Asahd is also credited as a producer. So yeah, I don't think Khaled really produced anything.

I am literally an old guy with glasses and a beard, so maybe that's what I have against them.