Griffin Burr
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Rumpus Sound Takes:
Passionate ImpasseThe Men Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones) If we were to come up with a taxonomy of ways people praise music, a lot of the categories would surely focus on some extramusical rupture the record caused.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Music for Libraries
Ben Von Wildenhaus Great Melodies From Around (Riot Bear Recording Co.) In Retromania, Simon Reynolds quotes Brian Eno from a 1991 Artforum article: “Curatorship is arguably the big new job of our times. … In an age saturated with new…
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Moving Backward, Forward
Steve Reich WTC 9/11 (Nonesuch) “It’s pretty much Different Trains but for 9/11.”