SOUNDTRACK: FUZZ-“Sleigh Ride” (2013).
How can some 3 minute songs seem like they take a long time and others feel like they are about a minute long. “Sleigh Rode” is one of those songs that is over before you know it. With a big old fuzzy guitar riff opening the song it sounds straight out of classic rock. Then the verses come in with faster riffing (like a less heavy Black Sabbath) and a sleazy kind of vocal. It reminds me of a more garage band/sloppy Queens of the Stone Age.
This is (yet another) band from Ty Segall. Robin Hilton from NPR says that Segall had put out some 6 solo albums and is in a half a dozen bands as well (and he’s only 26). he normally sings and plays guitar, but he plays drums in this band.
While I don’t actually know anything else by him, I really enjoy this piece of fuzzy distorted sleaze pop. and may need to see what he is other releases are like.
[READ: September 20, 2013] “Living Deluxe”
Diane Williams wrote Vicky Swanky is a Beauty which I did not really like. It was experimental and flash fiction which I am growing to like less and less. This short piece (which is actually longer than anything in Vicky Swanky, I believe), is from a collection in progress. I’m not sure if that means that this is finished or not (it’s hard to tell with her).
This story deals with a woman who has taken money from her mother (and sister and brother) because her mother “knew I needed to be a person with flair” (I liked that line).
The thing about the rest of the story is that the narrator acts like a five year old telling a story. The details that are added are not necessarily relevant to the story. So we get two paragraphs on a man sneezing, a few paragraphs on her cat, and a couple of paragraphs about Leonard da Vinci. These details might be relevant to the story. But interspersed with these details are things that impact the taking-money storyline—that her sister took something that was hers (the Da Vinci bit is about a present she gave to her sister). (more…)
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