duo musicians – michael jarmer

#805: M is for MGMT

The album begins with part 2 of the title song for MGMT’s Loss of Life, and overlays one of the most beautiful instrumental melodies I’ve ever heard with a spoken word sample of John Stewart Parker (a guy who is entirely absentfrom my google search results), and his old-poet-guy-style reading of a poem called “IContinue reading “#805: M is for MGMT”

#794: M is for The Mars Volta

I don’t know what to makeof these guys. I have three of their records, one of which I love, the other two of which I have very mixed feelings about. They seem to be a band thatdeliberately eschews accessibility, even down to their artier-than-thoucover art, which typically includeslittle or difficult to decipher identifyinginformation, and inContinue reading “#794: M is for The Mars Volta”