“There’s a fine line between heaven and here” – Bubbles Lao-Tzu once said “Celebrate your Failures, lament your successes”; Jay-Z has learned that, to his benefit, on 4:44, an album that manages to be fractious, fractured, and the compelling kind of incomplete. Coming on the heels of Lemonade, 4:44 sits in […]
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Kamasi’s really pushing the definition of “EP”, with this one. Coming from a tradition of Non-Tradition and Rule Breaking, Kamasi Washington’s EP Harmony of Difference is one of my favorite new jazz records in recent memory; the other being Washington’s Opus Epicus the 3 hour odyssey “The Epic” released in 2015. […]
We’re going down to the valley to suck the life out of rainbows, gonna have ourselves a time. As long as I’ve been an openly weird individual, I have found something kindred in Primus; from their openly surreal lyrics that sound like Bertolt Brecht on meth watching Barney the Dinosaur […]
Goddamn, Steven Wilson knows how to write a melody. Though he’s better known for crafting intricate prog-music, having a million side projects, and making sure that you forget what joy feels like (don’t watch this if you want to be happy ever again), and being the modern equivalent of every […]
“we shall be free; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice to reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven” – Satan, Paradise Lost Life is language; […]
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven – Satan, Paradise Lost. What is the value of blank ? I ask because negative space, silence – the in-betweens – often give art real depth. As Lao-Tzu wrote in the Tao Te […]