The beginning of my annual summer reading heavily involved Lizzy Goodman’s Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth And Rock And Roll In New York City 2001-2011 (thanks to my good friend Trent for the recommendation). The oral history of this…
Album Review: Dirty Projectors – “Sing the Melody”
David Longstreth exists in an alternate dimension where pop’s binaries are distorted to fit a brutalized abstract landscape. His bastardized versions of art-pop reached an apex with Bitte Orca almost a decade ago, though I think it’s Swing Lo Magellan…
Album Review: Dirty Projectors – “Lamp Lit Prose”
It’s been said that so much poetry is sad because it’s far easier to say something new about suffering than it is to say something new about happiness. This proposition sheds some light on the difference between Lamp Lit Prose,…
Album Review: Amber Coffman – “City of No Reply”
For her first solo album City of No Reply Amber Coffman, formerly of the Dirty Projectors, has crafted a batch of songs that largely evoke the struggle of learning to love yourself, and know that you are enough. The first song on…
Melody on Music: No Theme Necessary
Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. In 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past installments…
Album Review: Dirty Projectors — “Dirty Projectors”
Perhaps more so than usual, especially of late, I walk away from Dirty Projectors’ latest, self-titled album Dirty Projectors of two different, maddeningly inconsistent minds. The first album to come from the band in five years, it’s both a self-pitying,…