Can't Hardly Wait

Have you ever wanted to stop time when The Knack, Van Halen, Metallica, REO Speedwagon, and The Replacements were all in the same genre?

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You know how Jesu is boring and you wish they more like Part Chimp? So does Twin Sister.

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Their amazing totally fucking pissed off singer can’t sing, but boy can she holler.

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We say amateur to mean, “inexperienced” but I usually mean it as a compliment to mean, “our minds find it difficult to accept music when we have preconceived notions it sound like something you could describe in a single stereotyped word.”

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If “genre” in music means both that it’s possible to identify all of the elements of the genre in order to create new derivative work, and also an indication that the era of evolution for music like that is over, it’s interesting that pounding AmRep dude rock is a genre.

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For the 36 people who have written to Japancakes tighten it up, and cc’d Blithe Field when they told Ry Cooder to smoke more DMT, this may be ample evidence of a creator.

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Intentionality in pop music is underrated, and this record is a reminder of why a million years ago people who wanted to change the world thought starting a band was the way to do it.

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Mark E Smith’s been dead a couple years, and anyone who ever actually listened to the Fall can probably be comfortably seated to nurse their juice boxes at the community table in an assisted living facility, so leading with off-key notes declaring war on everything that isn’t The Fall is perplexing in 2020.

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Surely it says more about me than the band if I tell you the first two Medicine albums were mixed and mastered to emphasize volume and noise to the degree that I’ve seen people recoil when they’re on, and that’s what I was in it for.

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Feels like more of the same with some filler for a 2xLP imho. Not that it’s terrible or you can’t groove to this but less is sometimes more…

-shit and shine fan

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Zany!

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It’s not impolite but mere self-preservation if when anyone from anywhere but Jamaica says the word “dub” when mentioning their plans to record an album you flee, screaming.

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As someone who enjoys cacophonous and disorienting music as meditative, it’s exhilirating that the influence of music this bizarre for any time echoes in in contemporary pop music 50 years later.

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I’m almost annoyed I couldn’t help but agree with a review’s observation that this album can be represented in the union of Werewolves of London and the Shirelles’ Baby It’s You, because trust me, as much as I love the Shirelles, I don’t ever want anyone to play the Warren Zevon song ever again and I’m so thrilled something good came of it after all.

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Because our sympathetic human ability to identify sounds as coming from a human creates expectations of them, this unconscious demand on musical compositions containing them creates cognitive challenges for music that isn’t “about” the source of the sounds.

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