“Pretty Clown” taunts the whole technique: “Can you are feeling the leading edge/ Of my dying tenderness?” goes Davidson’s earnest sing-song refrain, an invitation to log off in service within your truest self.” The music was an instantaneous strike thanks to the way she and her sorceress’ apprentices assembled a great Woman Gaga pop … Read More

in 1991, maybe in between video clips by Swervedriver and the Catherine Wheel. Anderson reaches through the constructing sound to produce a connection with a person slipping outside of aim, as a perfect “na na na na na” chorus pushes him from faint hope to straight-up bliss. —Bandleader Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, a poet and anti-fascist activist, … Read More