Comments

Frankly, this "EP" is embarrassing. It's one very inept social protest song with dopey riffing off the "I don't know what I've been told" military refrain, buttressed by opportunistic sampling of a chant from protestors who Sumney explicitly denies simple solidarity ("I felt like an anthropologist"—what? why? You went to one demonstration, decided it wasn't for you, and now want plaudits for writing a shallow song about it four years later?), and a pretty good instrumental track that is nevertheless in no way social protest music. Algiers does it a lot better, but I think it should be acknowledged that even they feel pretty far from the sincere political art of a, say, Gil Scott Heron, for example.
-1 | 8/10/18 11:46 AM
on 
While we're at it, Norton's "my father defended America in Vietnam" shows exactly the kind of perverted "values" he serves.
-2 | 6/29/18 10:50 AM
on 
I can think of another regime that separates children from their parents. It also arrests and deports migrants and refugees from the African continent. It also shoots children in the open air in front of international media. Radiohead can get lost with their selective indignation and rank hypocrisy.
-2 | 6/29/18 10:46 AM
on 
wow stereogum is as hotbed of reactionary support for the modern apartheid state...it's disgusting how ignorant westerners are. peace
-1 | 6/5/17 10:49 AM
on 
lol
0 | 5/13/14 9:51 PM
on 
Trendy synth pop dominates the conversation as some of the most committed and consistent song-smiths (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Mirah) are reduced to afterthought
-4 | 5/13/14 4:37 PM
on 
You guys are right, I shouldn't be surprised by this dumb garbage content
-5 | 5/12/14 11:48 PM
on 
You're posting about this, Stereogum? http://newballpark.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/really_weekend_update.jpg
-11 | 5/12/14 4:24 PM
on 
The interview might be full of self-aggrandizing, delusional, farcical nonsense, but there is some good advice buried in there. I would take Coyne's recommendation to not be a Flaming Lips fan to heart.
+18 | 5/9/14 12:14 PM
on 
YES
0 | 4/29/14 3:35 PM
on 
whut no one else hates that bro's pouty face?
+6 | 4/14/14 2:53 PM
on 
could do with less hipster Fabio mugging for the camera
+5 | 4/14/14 12:25 PM
on 
http://skreened.com/render-product/u/q/c/uqcateecpiahexehqcga/arial-pink.american-apparel-unisex-fitted-tee.white.w380h440z1.jpg
+4 | 4/9/14 1:25 PM
on 
that's a photo from Bad Grandpa, right?
+2 | 4/7/14 11:34 AM
on 
why deny ourselves the pleasure of seeing a bass player who wears his own band t-shirt?
+4 | 4/7/14 11:34 AM
on 
Just a note, I've seen this in a few places and I think one of the tracklist items is misleading. The Daphni track, "Ye Ye," is not a new remix, it's from his album Jialong, and it's included here because it samples Onyeabor's "When the Going is Smooth and Good." Also, this Hot Chip cover is really good.
+1 | 3/26/14 4:39 PM
on 
Surely the new Withered Hand and the Tony Molina reissue are as worthy of mention as the Walking Dead soundtrack ;) (If anyone is not familiar with the Tony Molina stuff, it is basically like freebasing Pinkerton.)
0 | 3/26/14 2:05 PM
on 
Haha, yeah those generic rock riff snippets sound like a real return to form!
+1 | 3/20/14 9:19 AM
on 
Kevin Drew was already too gross. This is way over the top.
+2 | 3/18/14 3:29 PM
on 
I guess I'll give you Magic and Midnight, although I don't think either song really pushes the band any further than what they've already done. The other two songs debuted at SXSW, though, are about as triumphant as the house band's revved up version of "Open the Arms of My Heart" at my cousin's calculatedly hip Baptist church service.
-1 | 3/17/14 3:19 PM
on 
NEXT PAGE

Stereogum Media

Stereogum Digest