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I loved indie rock in high school, but I actually don't see any of this in that lineage
Maybe narcissism of small differences, maybe it's indie rock in the bigger picture
But I think what's compelling about this stuff to me, and part of what probably doesn't come across either on first-listen or to NYC outsiders, is how much insider baseball is being played with both the musical references and lyrics
 
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catalog said:
i did used to like weezer, i can't lie. i bought the album. undone, the sweater song. put it on in the car recently, wife wouldn't have it
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I love the blue album. It sounds like grown men larping as a middle schoolers practicing for the big fall talent show. Pulling of boyishness, adolescence is tricky. The rest is shit though
 
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Musically, there's nothing new about it, but also, no one's pretending there is. The music I've posted is by hardcore music nerds who've read Retromania, who subscribe to the Wire and Quietus, who know deepcuts as well as anyone
 
luka

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these are the musics it is permissable to like

1.rap
2.r&b
3.dancehall
4.jungle from the years 93 and 94
5.uk garage from the late 90s
 
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it's about staking out a half-ironic but fully sincere space in this detritus of history, that's sharp and self-aware and self-effacing while also being irreverent, making mathematics out of popular music history
 
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luka said:
these are the musics it is permissable to like

1.rap
2.r&b
3.dancehall
4.jungle from the years 93 and 94
5.uk garage from the late 90s
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these musics are problematic for the young americans luka cos they aren't black and they live in a climate where its problematic to be into black music when they are not black themselves.
 
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the young american whites feel they need to listen to white music now. otherwise people on the train look at them funny
 
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it's one of the check points for cancellation in america if you listen to the wrong colour music if you are not the right colour
 
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The track's a tiny little album filler with fun lyrics:
Miranda comes now, steps on veranda. TXT from best friend Montana. But that’s not her cellular. No, that is her lover’s. Ask: How does my love have Montana’s cell?

She’s running to Kinko’s. Making hard copies of nudeinmirror.jpg
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She’s tearing up photos to tear up his body. Like pins in voodoo. A part of the whole. She’s tearing up photos, shot telephoto. Left his profile defiled on side of the road.
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It comes in the middle of a double LP recorded on a Macbook, named in reference to the classic book on the birth of indie, "Our Band Could Be Your Life," and whose cover is modeled off 33 1/3 books

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Which, you can hate this stuff, but the referentially is intentional, knowing, and more self-interrogative than standard retro indie. The point is that rock as a genre is in a retro stage, and this is an attempt to do something interesting within it
 
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