SOUNDTRACK: CLAIRO-“Bags” (2019).
It seems like 2019 is the year of lo-fi women. There’s a lot of great songs but great artists mining the same field of guitar-based, quietly sung catchy songs.
Clairo’s “Bags” is the latest of this style of song.
There’s a shoegaze vibe to the song both in the woozy guitars and Clairo’s distant vocals. The melody is catchy but the big hook comes from what I assumed was a whispery, vibratoed synth line, but which a live video tells me is actually a guitar line. It’s 11 notes long and meanders in a rather compelling way.
I’m curious what the rest of the album will sound like.
[READ: August 2019] The Fifty Year Sword
I’ve really enjoyed Mark Z. Danielewski’s meta fictional books. He makes the book itself, not just the words, part of the story.
This book is a novella. Even though it’s nearly 300 pages, most of the right pages are blank and the left pages are mostly written in a poem-fashion with lots of white space.
(It’s a huge waste of paper, because the book would still work of text was on left and right, but whatever).
Neverthless, the design is really pretty.
This story has a design element that means there are a lot of colors in the book.
The conceit is that there are five orphans telling this story. Each is designated by a different colored quotation mark. The orphans interrupt each other constantly (which is what gives the pages the look of poetry). (more…)
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