So, I currently work for this online magazine called No Tofu. I feel like I'm walking steps closer to becoming some kind of legitimate, trusted music journalist. I mean No Tofu isn't Pitchfork, by any means... but it's definitely a medium to which I can learn about internet writing. And it's a step beyond my column from my school newspaper, The Beacon. Well, not a step beyond, but more professional. I mean I love writing my Exploding Head column... which I post clippings of on this blog every time I log on. It's just I can't fucking stand having to write like 800-word pieces every week. I changed my weekly rate into a bi-weekly; I'm busy, ya feel me?
With No Tofu, I am contributing and writing mp3 reviews any time I can. I'd say three to four reviews a week. All within 300 words.
Here are the reviews I've written thus far:
Twin Sister - All Around and Away We Go
LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls
Delorean - Stay Close
Love Is All - Bigger Bolder
The Twin Sister is kind of a gem.
LCD Soundsystem is a group that's tough to comprehend; Drunk Girls is just a terrible song, in my opinion. Reminiscent of frat-rock garbage.
The Delorean track is an absolute beauty to behold... especially since that's the kind of shit that band puts out anyway.
Love Is All's new song and album is just fun/twee as fuck.
Oh. A couple of albums I highly recommend/endorse:
-Pavement's Quarantine The Past:
Yeah I know it's a greatest hits record, but it's like the best greatest hits record I've ever heard. Sort of plays like a homemade mixtape. Songs aren't in chronological order, but flow well. Gold Soundz is also like one of my favorite songs of all time.
-Javelin - No Mas:
Arguably the best electronic album of the year so far. Sorry, Four Tet.
-Beach House - Devotion:
I totally realized this during the weekend: Teen Dream kinda sucks. I don't know what it is about the album, but it doesn't sit well with me. It doesn't sound like Beach House. Sounds more like a better Coldplay album... but that's not a great thing. Devotion is all types of minimal and beautiful. Without sacrificing any of the songwriting and a reduced volume count, Devotion is simply just way better than Teen Dream because of its "less-is-more" aesthetic.
-Titus Andronicus - The Monitor:
Haven't been too impressed with the amount of rock albums this year. Though, Titus is a band to get excited for. A concept album centered around the Civil War acting as an allegory for life, love and hatred of New Jersey. Is there a better song than A More Perfect Union?
