#mose brown

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Institute - I Am Living Death

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You think people make choices? I do. No.

[madebyteenagefury]

i hope its okay to send in art reqs.. could i maybe ask for some dykesettos maybe )definitely not ovbious who sent this in )

it’s absolutely okay, i had a BALL THANK YOU

thank you to everyone adding to the dykesettos tag ily all so much RAHH

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Ithaca model 37 ?

Smash

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[karagin22]

JMB

[langfield]

max getting three poc love interests ( yes, safi counts in my mind ) is SO good and a nice change of pace to the constant streak of white love interests in lis when you don’t have someone crying about how ‘max would never!’ in your ear

[inmyperfectworld]

Teedra Moses in the early '00s. 🩷

SN: She's one of my favorite singers.

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manny jacinto & moses sumney via thombrowne

[married-to-a-redhead]

Happy Birthday to the greatest and most influential engineer and designer of firearms.

John Moses Browning, born January 23, 1855

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7/1/24.

"Lullaby for the Debris" is the second LP from Peace De Résistance (New York, New York). The band is the solo project of Moses Brown whose prior band, Institute put out some great rock in the mid 2010s.

Peace De Résistance's first LP was undeniably enjoyable glam rock. I can't imagine that the D'Addario brothers (The Lemon Twigs) didn't love the 1st record. And while there is only one song currently available from "Lullaby for the Debris" it seems like Brown might be a shape shifter like The Lemon Twigs. Still, the Bandcamp page for the new release name drops Lou Reed, David Bowie ("Station to Station" era) and Brian Eno.

This is a co-release between Brown's Peace De Records and the venerable La Vida Es Un Mus Discos.

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Favorite Albums of 2024:

Here we go: favorite albums of the year. I like to make my lists every year and these? Are just my favorites. Are they the best albums of the year? Who the fuck knows. Maybe some are, some aren’t. I make these lists for myself, because I like to go back and revisit these, but if you listen and find something here you like, that’s awesome!

favorite albums of 2024, in alphabetical order:

Dagny - ELLE (listen: In My Bones, Strawberry Dream)

Dawn Richard, Spencer Zahn - Quiet in a World Full of Noise (listen: Quiet in a World Full of Noise, Breath Out)

Dehd - Poetry (listen: Hard to Love, Mood Ring)

Empress Of - For Your Consideration (listen: Femenine, Kiss Me)

FLETCHER - In Search of the Antidote (listen: Attached to You, Crush)

Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past is Still Alive (listen: Alibi, Hourglass)

Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol (listen: Upon Sober Reflection, Fugitive Summer)

Joy Oladokun - Observations from a Crowded Room (listen: Good Enough, Drugs)

Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well (listen: Jade Green, Sway)

Kaleida - In Arms (listen: Choices, Kilda)

Kenya Vaun - The Honeymoon Phase (listen: Yesterday, Overrated)

Lizzie No - Halfsies (listen: Halfsies, Annie Oakley)

Moses Sumney - Sophcore (listen: Vintage, Love's Refrain)

Orville Peck - Stampede (listen: How Far Will We Take It?, Chemical Sunset)

Pom Pom Squad - Mirror Starts Moving Without Me (listen: Street Fighter, The Tower)

Raveena - Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain (listen: Lose My Focus, We Should Move Somewhere Beautiful)

Rei Brown - Aura (listen: Get Me Out, Fire)

Reyna Tropical - Malegria (listen: Cartagena, Lo Siento)

somesurprises - Perseids (listen: Be Reasonable, Dark Victory)

TezaTalks - Black Girl American Horror Story (listen: STOPIT!!, Oxygen, Cops)

Honourable Mentions:

Fleet Foxes - Live on Boston Harbor I don't put live albums on the EOY list, but this is an excellent listen--you can also watch it on youtube. Robin is in peak banter form. (listen: Ragged Wood)

Various Artists - American Football (Covers) The classic American Football record is so iconic, and so gorgeous, of course a record full of covers from other brilliant musicians is gonna slap. (listen: Ethel Cain - For Sure)

Usher - Coming Home It didn't need to be a double album! The first half is perfect! The second half has some decent songs, but it is definitely weaker. (listen: Kissing Strangers "how'd we go from strangers kissing to kissing strangers"? LAWD shot to the heart)

[multi-muse-transect]

I feel if Double Exposure was written by James Gunn then it would lean to the comedic side of Life Is Strange before irreversibly rip our hearts out while having an uplifting message about facing the past.

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10 Books to Add to Your TBR 2024 Edition Part 1

Most years I put out a list of books I greatly enjoyed from the first half of the year some time in June. This year, I decided to do it early because, besides needing a blog for this week, I have read a lot of good books lately, so I’m thinking of making this something I do more than twice a year (and often forget to do in December). The books listed below are not in any order of favoritism, but…

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Peace De Résistance — Lullaby for the Debris (La Vida Es un Mus)

Like some doomed lovechild of the later Velvets and Diamond Dogs-period Bowie, with the most hypnotically rocking tunes by the Swell Maps (think “Midget Submarines” or “Secret Island”) as close avuncular relations, Peace De Résistance’s new LP Lullaby for the Debris shuffles into earshot. Louche and low-slung, but also jittery and jumpy; groovy and gravid in equal proportions — the record’s feeling tone can be hard to inhabit, but it’s simultaneously so seductively easy to dance to. It just about demands a tapping foot, a shaking hip and a shimmying pair of shoulders, if you can shed enough of our collective state of existential dread to get up off the floor and shimmy. (Shaking is a simpler prospect these days, if you are willing to do so in fear.) This reviewer enjoys moving in tune with “Coddle the Rich” or “I Am,” songs that realize the variety of mordant delight Peace De Résistance excels at creating. Listening to Lullaby for the Debris won’t solve any of the problems generating all that fearful trembling, but the record can take some of the sting out of things. In our current conjuncture, that’s just about enough.

Listeners familiar with Bits and Pieces (2022), the first LP Moses Brown released under the Peace De Résistance name, will encounter some similar sounds and textures here. Brown hasn’t effected significant changes to the project’s sonic identity: glammy punk with a grimy bit of a funk on it. These new songs are more polished without losing much of the ragged quality that distinguishes the project’s musical atty-tude. Brown sounds sorta jaded, sorta grossed out, but not entirely hopeless. And maybe that’s not such a great thing: it would be so much easier just to shrug and mumble a cynical “fuck it.” Having hope means that you can’t turn entirely passive. What a drag.

So we get songs like “40 Times the Rent” and “Fast Money,” curling their lips at capital’s unjust disparities of wealth and the increasing difficulties of affording space in which to exist and have something like a private life. Those are intractable problems also addressed by Institute, the Austin-based punk project Brown participates in. Peace De Résistance is more glam than anarchic, and Brown’s loose-limbed grooves clash with his sprechtgesang vocal style, akin to a more nasally and dissipated Leonard Cohen, c. I’m Your Man. Like Cohen, Brown makes that relatively flat delivery feel urgent, mysterious and reckless, even as the music strikes more decadent stances.

It's a complicated sound, despite its druggy and dissolute surfaces. The songs’ content demands to be taken seriously, and depending on your politics, you may find the sentiments of smartly written tunes like “Ain’t What It Used to Be” (about gentrification and its historical erasures) and “Pay Us More” (yep) sharp and moving, critical and edging toward something like aspirational struggle. The music is both less sanguine and more oriented toward pleasure. The combination of style and content isn’t jarring so much as weirdly on edge, a pose of careless aloofness that wants to lose its cool. This reviewer enjoys those surface-level pleasures enough to hope that Brown can stave off the hotter affect. But the political won’t wait, and the debris is accumulating noisily, however effective Peace De Résistance’s lullabies might be. Harsh daylight will cut through those black-lensed Ray-Bans soon enough.

Jonathan Shaw