Powerful cats making music
Everything Cat Power creator Chan Marshal does is hit or miss. Sometimes, she gives amazing concerts, but just as often she walks off stage mid-song, saying that she’s “just not feeling it.” Sometimes she puts out a new album every year, but sometimes, due to an array of problems, she takes nearly five years to put out new material. Some of her albums, like 1998’s Moon Pix, are considered indispensable by music critics everywhere, while other records, like 2000’s The Covers Record, leave fans wanting. In all respects, Marshal and her music are fickle, unreliable, and erratic. Her new album, You Are Free, could have been anything, but without a doubt, it’s a hit, not a miss. It more than makes up for her musical mistakes and gaps in production, and easily matches the genius of her best material.
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Listening to good angular rock isn’t a crime
In the indie rock sphere, the term “angular” is universally reserved as a misleading catch-all for any type of music that feels no need to heed the usual power-pop leanings and song structures that dominate rock. The inherent problem in that particular categorization is that any hunk of dissonant, oblique soundscape with no redeeming value can be called angular, to remove it from critics’ crosshairs. The term is more a shield than an accurate description.
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Tearing at the underbelly of categorization
Sam Cramer ‘04 and Leah Bry ‘04 do some serious pretentious DJing every Thursday morning
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Adapting back to Grinnell
It can be hard to come back; that’s why movies about troubled people and war are on campus this weekend.
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