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« City of ghosts | Main | Amis on terror » Friday, December 22, 2006Pop music? Or bad Theory class?Josh has "Philosophy Watch" -- now, alas, on hiatus -- while Private Eye has its "Pseud's Corner." While I ponder my own rubric (not really), I'll just pass along this gem from Slate's year-end wrap-up of pop music. The subject is two CDs, by Destroyer and Swan Lake, featuring the work of the songwriter Dan Bejar, that I'd actually like to hear (though not necessarily because of this particular endorsement). Both albums, but Destroyer's "Rubies" especially, are like particle accelerators, bombarding their subjects (from romantic nostalgia to the status hierarchies of contemporary art) at every turn with polymorphous rhetoric, while never settling into a single point of view. That, and there are some good -- I mean "casually indelible" -- "riffs and melodies," too. Posted by Christopher Shea at 11:15 AM
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