Pop music

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Thanks for the recommendations!

LK


-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
>Sent: Dec 3, 2015 5:14 PM
>To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Pop music
>
>Not Pynchon (at least not much) -- and also no politics, I promise.
>
>There are two new albums out now that I very much recommend: Former 
>Go-Betweens' Robert Forster's "Songs to Play" and the Chills' "Silver 
>Bullets".
>
>The Guardian provides more information for the uninitiated:
>
>http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/18/robert-forster-songs-to-play-review-songs-that-creep-up-and-throttle-you
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>http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/oct/23/the-chills-comeback-album-silver-bullets-listen
>
>Jonathan Lethem is a fan of both bands (in fact he called the 
>Go-Betweens his favourite band):
>
>http://jonathanlethem.com/go_betweens.html
>
>More generally, Robert Christgau has the most insightful takes on the 
>Chills and the Go-Betweens and also on Robert Forster as a solo artist.
>
>I am sure that James Kyllo, yet another admirer of the Go-Betweens, 
>would have enjoyed these records...
>
>Robert Forster had a role in Robert Bramkamp's GR-inspired movie 
>"Prüfstand 7" but actually very much prefers Joyce to Pynchon (cf. the 
>cover of "Danger in the Past").
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