record review poem – michael jarmer

#566: Two Sonnets for Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacios by The Mars Volta

I I haven’t even listened to it yet, but I have looked at it with some surprise– precisely because there’s nothing to see.I will describe it from the inside out.Black vinyl, black label, on which tiny numbers indicate sides, inside black sleeves.An insert, the only art, a gray and tanindeterminate image, a map, orjust randomContinue reading “#566: Two Sonnets for Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacios by The Mars Volta”

#565: A Sonnet for Japanese Breakfast

From jubilation to down in the dumps: The trajectory of Zauner’s JapaneseBreakfast from the last album to this one. For Melancholy Brunettes and Sad Womenspin for the first time on my turntable, but I’m not despondent, not in the least, in the way that it can feel good to be sad,in the way that aContinue reading “#565: A Sonnet for Japanese Breakfast”

#555: Dan’s Boogie (A Record Review Sonnet Pair)

1 “That’s life,” Dan Bejar sings in the first song of the new Destroyer album. “It’s the same thing as nothing at all.” Listening toBejar, I remember hearing Neil Youngsing for the first time, thinking at first he was a woman, and then thinking that he really wasn’t very good at singing, until I beganContinue reading “#555: Dan’s Boogie (A Record Review Sonnet Pair)”