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Here is edition two of The Moderns OSMR. As I explained last week, my goal here is to share as many new releases with you as I can. At the same time, I hope these one-sentence reviews help our artists friends promote their work at a uniquely difficult time.Be well, and be good to one another.…
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I’ve been giving a lot of thought this week to what kind of small role The Moderns can play in light of the COVID-19 crisis. It’s clear that artists around the world are suffering, economically and otherwise. Please do what you can to support them financially. Buy their recordings. Buy their merch. Many have just…
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We lost guitarist David Roback last week. No word yet on the cause of death; he was just 61. Losing him at such a young age is awful, most of all for those close to him but also for those of his who appreciated his work. Roback helped launched three unreal projects: Mazzy Star most…
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In the 1980s, I was lucky enough to study radio documentary production with Stuart McLean as part of my journalism training. Besides being one of Canada’s great storytellers, McLean regularly pushed the radio doc format in unexpected directions. (Terribly afraid of heights, he once recorded himself climbing up into the operator booth of a skyscraper…
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Open To The Sea’s aptly titled Another Year Is Over, Let’s Wait For Springtime eases listeners in with a creamy, multi-layered Lau Nau vocal atop drones and other delicate electronics. The Finnish singer wrote her own lyrics for the piece. They will be unintelligible to many ears (including mine), but no matter. “Heavying Like a…
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Coming as it does, in the last month of this decade, Lee Yi’s remarkable new album provides us an opportunity to recognize both his talent and the larger implications of the genre of music he is a part of. Sorrow’s Self-Portrait shares a good deal in common with many of the most interesting releases produced…
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