Author Archives: Hess Chris

s / s / s (Sufjan Stevens, Serengeti & Son Lux)

We had it good, didn’t we?
We had it good, didn’t we?
Didn’t we?

The questions we ask ourselves so much. The questions that become threads running thru seasons.

Saboteur by Lifeboat Etiquette

These stories…they are everywhere. Around us in analog. Drowned out by too many channels of static and sound. Images and moving pictures. Digitized.

Lifeboat Etiquette (Ryan Hollen) is the checkout man at your local grocer. These stories–they are in front of him everyday. They are in the eyes of the folk buying the eggs.

Jay J Matott & The Arctic

What do you say about some albums? What can you say about them, these albums. These albums you can’t stop listening to. These albums – that if they were in an actual physical format – they would be wearing out. These albums that wouldn’t have left your cassette deck for weeks and weeks.

You Me & Apollo – Cards With Cheats

There can be preconceived notions of an album based on how it gets to us. Who recommends it to us. Who asks us to listen to it as a favor. Who gives it to us as a gift.

Having those notions blown by the wayside can be a pleasant surprise or a surprise letdown. When those notions are blown completely out of the stratosphere…well that’s another thing altogether.

Josh Dillard – The Whale & The Sea