[You would think that a year's lockdown—more or less—would be a golden age at squarefoot.blog. I have no explanation for why keeping a blog didn't feel like a good use of my time. So this post is several months late according to the calendar of my expectations for myself.] 2020 was THE Covid year. We're … Continue reading 2020, My Year in Listening
Tag: Vinyl
Automatic for the People was never my favorite R.E.M. album. Later, the inescapable ubiquity of "Man on the Moon," and "Everybody Hurts" on radio tarnished the thing for me. Between the movie tie-in and the overly joyful "Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight," it began to feel trite and commercially exposed. At least in comparison to the music I was … Continue reading Etude (Record Review): R.E.M., Automatic for the People
(A LP happens to be 1 square foot, which makes record reviews almost obligatory for this blog). Francis Ford Coppola's 'chapter' of the 1989 anthology film New York Stories is about the relationship between a daughter, Zoë, and a father, who is a famous flautist. The only piece of it that's stuck with me for all of … Continue reading Etude (Record Review): Hamza el Din, Escalay
