I have a new piece up at TwentyFourBit today: a column about October music. It’s my second effort at curating from the middle distance, and I used some of the feedback you gave me after my first effort last month. There are fewer links to quotes and interviews, for one; for another, alongside my list of October albums to check out I wrote a sentence explaining why I think you should. Hopefully the whole thing feels a little less ungainly than the first effort.
This month my mind was primarily about age and music — which, yes, did mean mentioning the whole ‘adult contemporary’ thing again — but mostly I was interested in bands that approached the subject from the opposite side. That is, young artists obsessed with their own youth: Youth Lagoon and M83:
As I’ve warmed to The Year of Hibernation, I’ve marveled at the way that Powers has taken such delicate threads of voice, guitar and keyboards and spun them into anthems. Taken together, his record achieves the depth he finds lacking in his peers. Call it quarterlife contemporary — tasteful and subtle, sure, but still in thrall to that remote waterhole of adolescent angst.
Check it out if you like, and if you would, leave a comment letting me know what you think.
