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The aptly titled Bromst, Dan Deacon’s newest album seems to bring together exactly what the title implies. Part new sound, part old, Dan Deacon took Bromst in a somewhat new direction, while largely adhering to his old standbys of crazy and absurd. The songs are as packed with noise as ever, while Deacon distorts his voice through out the background like some sort of acid-tripping, cat-stuck-in-engine sound that I couldn’t possibly describe …
It’s a great album, and it is paramount that I make that immediate statement so I can segue into talk about other things than how great it is. An album with at least 29 plus artists, all of whom are top 10 in my book, defies any possibility of being bad. From Andrew Bird to Sufjan Stevens, even Yo La Tango, the …
On first glance it seems a little pretentious. A title like “Life” has a lot of implications, and to form any sort of art around a topic as large as life itself sounds a bit silly. But Frans Lanting probably gave his work this title for a couple of reasons. First of all, as the world’s foremost nature photographer (as claimed by some), Lanting has spent the better part …
Is the University of Minnesota acting like a business? The obvious answer seems to be “yes” in light of ever increasing tuition rates and the growing salaries of our administration. More recent evidence was Bruininks’ award of “Executive of the Year” by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. By loose definition, the school is most certainly a business as it provides a service for a publicly listed price. …
It has been just over four years now since I wrote my last album review. Initially I was afraid that I would be rusty or, even worse, that my writing would have grown ‘unhip’. To combat these fears, I read a multitude of reviews of this album in preparation. I have to admit, what I found was quite surprising.
I use as example …