Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
Reviews of albums, shows, songs and the like.
It’s been over 20 years since their debut album Telephono was released in 1996, and they have done nothing but look forward ever since. I have no problem saying that Spoon have released some of my generations best rock records, and they’ve done it continually on their own terms. Through a major label fumble that […]
Read More Spoon : Hot ThoughtsBenjamin John Power’s Blanck Mass is the kind of musical project that is unforgiving in its need to evolve. He pushes the boundaries of what you thought electronic music was supposed to be. Much like Daniel Lopatin’s Oneohtrix Point Never, Power takes the canvas of electronic and experimental music and pushes the boundaries; painting on […]
Read More Blanck Mass : World EaterDriving home from picking up my son at school the other day we were listening to Flying Lotus’ Until The Quiet Comes. I looked over to my son and said “What I love about this music is that it’s a perfect mix of woozy trip hop, groovy hip hop, and complex jazz chord structures.” My […]
Read More Thundercat : DrunkSummer of 1987. This was the summer where I discovered metal. Speed metal, that is. I’d done the classics by the time I’d hit the 7th grade. Made my way through the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and Hendrix. AC/DC were in my collection, as well as a good chunk of hair metal. Most of […]
Read More “I’d rather listen to Lizzy Borden, to be quite honest.”The first movie I watched that truly disturbed me to my core was John Carpenter’s The Thing. Sure, I’d seen films that made me jump and that had given me nightmares for a week straight. And yes, there were films that made me not want to go downstairs for fear of creature hands coming through […]
Read More Who Goes There?I’m not really sure how I revisit an album that came out less than a year ago, especially one that I loved right off the bat. But really, this is a series not of albums I’m going back to and seeing if they’re a better fit after some time has passed. No, these posts are […]
Read More Causa Sui Revisited Part Three : Return To SkyThe Satanic Path(1983) -courtesy of Gorgon Video A young woman named Jamie, after just turning 18 years old decides to leave her cushy Midwestern upbringing after her mother dies from mysterious circumstances. She moves to Europe in order to search for her biological father whom she has never met. Her search leads her to a […]
Read More The Satanic Path Is The Right PathWhen I listen to Slow Dakota’s The Ascension of Slow Dakota I imagine some room hidden off in an endless, storied estate. It’s a room with hints of light seeping through the pulled blinds and within the stained wood walls it feels as if you’ve stumbled across square footage time forgot. The musty smell of […]
Read More Slow Dakota : The Ascension of Slow DakotaMauro Remiddi appeared from a hazy cloud of synthwave and dream pop back in 2012 under the name Porcelain Raft with the lush Strange Weekend. It was this wonderful mix of Cocteau Twins big sweeps and early Depeche Mode. It was a breath of fresh air amid the vacuous space known as chillwave that was […]
Read More Porcelain Raft : MicroclimateI think if you went back 22 years to 1995 you’d find the running thoughts on the trajectories of Son Volt and Wilco would be significantly different than what actually ended up happening. While Wilco’s debut album A.M. was decent enough, it didn’t hold a candle to the gritty and windswept Midwest epic that was […]
Read More Son Volt : Notes Of Blue