Free Kitten - Inherit (listen to “Seasick”)
Albums are difficult. You have to have it all in one place, at a bare minimum. You have to know what order the tracks go in.
If you are serious, you listen to a CD. You have to have a specific object which maps only to the one album, the specific intent of people in time. You can’t let it get scratched, you break the case, the booklet gets little half-circles imprinted in its sides if you don’t reinsert it into the case correctly. There’s not enough information in the booklet, and you can’t just look it up in Wikipedia, because your CD player doesn’t have Wikipedia, it doesn’t even tell you what track is playing any more, not since the light burnt out two years ago. You have to imagine what instruments made the sound, who played it, where they recorded it.
An LP makes things a little more complicated, because you have to be in one place, the place where your record player lives. Then at some point you have to get up, turn over the record.
It’s like a puppy, reminding you it likes to eat, to walk, to play. Focus.
Well the main question about something as cool and hip as this, is if it would be as cool if it weren’t as hip. In other words, without Kim Gordon or at least the mark of Sonic Youth, would this sound have the same effect? Am I listening to music, or to culture? I can imagine a sort of self-congratulatory mode in which the local mode love of the unknown is combined with the mass mode imprimatur of a taste maker.
I wanted to post “Help Me”, because it’s funny and awesome, but mundane problems arose. Listen to it above, if you want.
1 year ago
