I highly recommend Stephen Malkmus's new album, Real Emotional Trash. It's a bit odd and mediocre at times, but it's strangeness falls on very welcome ears with me. I'm becoming increasingly impatient with run of the mill rock songs. Music that a few years ago for me would have been the best thing are now boring and unsatisfying, and this album isn't either of those.
Francis Bacon once said, "The job of an artist is always to deepen the mystery". I'm inclined to agree with him. It should be the job of not just artists but all of us to deepen the mystery, to do the different thing, to stray from the path.
If you're curious (because I'm sure you are), my top three from the album: "Dragonfly Pie", "Baltimore", and "Wicked Wanda".
A cool cat, this guy is. He was the voice for Cate Blanchett during musical numbers in last year's I'm Not There, both of which were excellent covers: "Maggie's Farm" (pretty good) and "Ballad of a Thin Man" (amazing).
Chice
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