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"The album's got a cute title, with the double meaning of 'check out how hot we are" and 'hooking up again with the person you used to date.' Almost any of these simple two-riff, verse-chorus songs would have made a perfectly acceptable addition to their original records (and they're better than anything either Kelly or McKee has come up with since they broke up); in particular, 'I Hate the 80's' is a welcome bit of grumpy oldsterism and 'Turning It On' is built on juicy love/hate sentiments. The band's twanging, strummy arrangements and McKee and Kelly's bedroom-eyed thrust-and-parry are exactly like they were the first time around."
-Pitchfork gives the new Vaselines album, Sex With an X, a cute rating of 6.9.
The byline on the Pitchfork review is Douglas Wolk.
I just figure it's worth noting the review is written by an accomplished writer with a fairly broad array of professional interests, wittily pursued in a wide range of published writings. Pitchfork has some good writers, yo.
Lots of good writers. And Douglas is one of the best.
Also can we just talk for a second about how today is TOTALLY BANANAS NEW RELEASE DAY????
Superchunk. Black Mountain. Screaming Females. The Vaselines. GRINDERMAN 2. Of Montreal. Justin Townes Earle. Les Savy Fav. The Walkmen. Weezer. Brandon Flowers. Josiah Leming (the kid from "American Idol" who lived in his car and who was kinda good!).
Obv YMMV but damn this is just the beginning of a great fall.
Just want to say I saw the Screaming Females last weekend for the first time, and they were aaamaaaaaziiiiiiing. And we spent way too much of our time arguing about how old the lead singer is.
Holy shit I am a diehard blonde redhead fan (no love, Maura?) and therefore heading out for their new one in a bit and I am SCARED for my bank account. Ugh, self imposing a two album limit!
where is matt when you need a joke about twee
Oh man, the fight over the t-shirt that caused me to miss Janelle Monae last night had but one up-peep from this peanut gallery, "Eh, you don't want an of Monte t-shirt anyway. They tend to be a little twee." Which was met with "Huh? Do you mean like 'tweet'?"
Of course, this was the same person who didn't know what Gawker was when I tried to explain my Halloween costume of Kurt Cobain If He'd Lived And Let Himself Go that featured the legend "CORPORATE BLOGS STILL SUCK" scrawled on the white tee.
This just makes me miss The Lovemakers all that much more.