Swiping tunes from all over the place and sampling everything from hip-hop to hippie folk, the new Vampire Weekend album demands exegesis.
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Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (January 2014, Part 2)
In part 2 of this month, reviews of Beyoncé, Blood Orange, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, and Waxahatchee.
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Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (January 2014, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of Shinee, Disclosure, Boards of Canada, Chvrches, and the Pet Shop Boys.
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Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (December 2013, Part 2)
Reviews of Jake Bugg, Veronica Falls, Danny Brown, and M.I.A.
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Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (December 2013, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of Eminem, Haim, Dean Wareham, and Queens of the Stone Age.
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Yoko Ono’s New Music and New Writings: It’s Her Universe, and Welcome to It!
Today, Ono is no longer, as Lennon quipped in the late 1960s, “the world’s most famous unknown artist”; at the time, he added: “everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does.”
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Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (November 2013, Part 2)
In part 2 of this month, reviews of Arcade Fire, Miley Cyrus, Omar Souleyman, and Chance the Rapper.
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Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (November 2013, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of Iceage, Parquet Courts, Sleigh Bells, and Mikal Cronin.
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Timeless Amniotic Bubble: William Basinski’s Analogue Noise
William Basinski, self-described composer of “experimental electronic ambient music,” played selections from his new CD Nocturnes at Issue Project Room’s Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain celebration recently held at its majestically renovated downtown Brooklyn location.
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Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (October 2013, Part 2)
In part 2 of this month, reviews of a workout mix, Drake, Justin Timberlake, and Lorde.
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Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (October 2013, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of AlunaGeorge, A$AP Ferg, Kurt Vile, and James Blake.
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Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (September 2013, Part 2)
Reviews of The Dirtbombs, Maybach Music Group, Skillet, and Icona Pop.