Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
Hello friends. Man, what a long week it’s been here in the hundred acre wood. Have you ever had that experience of going on a week-long holiday only to return to your place of employment and find out there’s pretty much the entire previous week’s worth of work waiting for you? Well, if not I […]
Read More Wanderlust(and drywall dust)The first time I heard Wire’s 154 I have to say I wasn’t all that impressed. In fact, I felt I should’ve spent my $14 on another Kraftwerk CD instead of on this “art rock/punk” band. It was 2007, and I was in the throes of a Spoon binge after the release of their Ga […]
Read More A Touching DisplayLet me preface this post first by saying I have not seen David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows….yet. I have every intention of watching it as soon as I can. It’s been on my radar for nearly a year now and from everything I’ve read about it to the trailer I am more than excited to […]
Read More Disasterpeace…MasterpieceI’m not entirely sure what drew me to Ben Zimmerman’s The Baltika Years. It may have been the album cover, which was all white with what looked like confetti all over it. Maybe it was the fact that one of my new favorite record labels, Software, was putting it out. Or maybe it was the […]
Read More The Space Jack HummerOf all those horror soundtracks I’ve got in my collection, one of my favorites has to be Rob’s Maniac Soundtrack. It’s filled with all that 80s synth goodness, slick production, eerie moments, and mournful bouts of melancholy. You know, all those things that get the girls all hot and bothered. Am I right? Huh? Okay, […]
Read More Headache CityMorality doesn’t exist. Only morale. -Hannibal Lecter Really nothing better than hearing these words when you walk in the door straight off of a day’s work, “Hey. You got a record in the mail.” Man, it’s like Christmas at some random time during the year. There’s a brown cardboard square with something very wonderful inside. […]
Read More BonsoirEl Paraiso Records in Denmark pretty much own me. Yeah, I’ll admit it. 2014 has been the year of El Paraiso for me, musically speaking. First it started with a curious listen of Causa Sui’s ‘Summer Sessions 1-3’ which led me to Papir, Psicomagia, Jonas Munk’s Pan, then finally Jakob Skott. Munk and Skott are […]
Read More Evening Spin: Jakob Skott’s ‘Doppler’So I’m sitting on my couch. I often do that after a long day of work, and when the dog is using my chair as a canine throne. Today though, I chose the couch. I like to sit on the couch when listening to new vinyl. Yesterday I received not one, but two new albums […]
Read More Earthless and Heavy Blanket at RoadburnHi. I’m currently staying indoors as nature is most certainly trying to kill me. Cottonwood falling like snow in January, mold spores at an all-time high, the sky raining cats…okay, no cats. But all that other crap is real. Trust me. So instead of boo-hooing about my lack of allergen-fighting chromosomes I thought I’d look […]
Read More My Favorite Albums of 2014 So Far…Yes. I love Blade Runner. In fact, it’s one of my favorite films ever. Ever. The futuristic, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles with the flames blazing into the grey air, the always rainy streets, and Darryl Hannah dressed as a baby doll. Philip K. Dick’s short story about what defines a being as real and not, to […]
Read More “It’s too bad she won’t live, but then again, who does?”