About 15 years ago, satirical news source The Onion warned we may be running out of past to recycle. With artists like Lana Del Rey and Mumford and Sons in the mainstream, The Onion was right. What's offered is oh-so-serious rehash, seemingly forgoing fun when exalting kitsch.
Regurgitator didn't forget. This record is Ben Ely and Quan Yeomans' wild laboratory of pop music that almost was, unconstrained by coked-up label execs or A&R fluffers.
I wrote a review for a fittingly morose thirteenth record by electro mourners Depeche Mode. Issue #431 brims with wonderful stories between the covers - it's only $6 and every purchase helps out someone in need. Available from vendors across the country.
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Have you ever listened to a record after a reading a review and discovered it just wasn't right?
Sometimes they (we?) get it so wrong it’s like the reviewer walked into your home and told you straight up that your mother is dead. But she isn’t dead. She’s sitting right next to you. Screaming furiously at the stupid reviewer for imputing she’s actually dead. How dare the reviewer. How dare they indeed. (Get out of my house already, you good for nothing reviewer!)
Shake your fist at skewerings of Deftones, Mumford & Sons and Muse reviews at TheVine.
“The universe is change, life is what our thoughts make it.”
