Jacked Up
Jack White has been banning phones at his concerts for over a year, getting rid of the idiots who choose to record the entire concert on their phones with terrible audio quality and blocking the view of the people behind them with their bright screen. But this week he revealed that he doesn’t own a cell phone himself and has never had one. He thinks it allows him to live more in the moment. I don’t think that is quite the same if you can have assistants as it would be for a normal person to try to quit using a cell phone. I guess you would at least not wonder why no one was texting you to hang out.
Album of The Week
Bat For Lashes- The Haunted Man (2012)
“A ghost from the past has turned my heart black
Am I ever gonna let him go?”
“You’re the train that crashed my heart
You’re the glitter in the dark
Ooh, Laura, you’re more than a superstar”
Inspired and influenced by the music of Patti Smith, this album is intentionally bare and honest completely through. So much so that the lead singer Natasha Khan decided to be naked and without makeup on the album’s cover. The stripped down sound accentuates the power of her voice. This album is the culmination of years of work as Natasha suffered from severe writer’s block and she reached out to Radiohead’s Thom Yorke for advice on how to begin writing again. His advice was to instead focus on other creative outlets and the writing would eventually come back to her. So she signed up for children’s drawing and art classes as well as dance classes. The new creative outlets did the trick and produced a powerful album.
Best New Track: Divorce
“I’m drinking in the dark because my battery’s all ran out
All you got to do is say it”
If I was Your Girlfriend
“If I was your one and only friend
Would you run to me if somebody hurt you
Even if that somebody was me?”
Chicago
“I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind”
I Told You Everything
“Sitting at the bar, I told you everything
You said, “Holy shit, you almost died””
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