Miami Nights WAV MiDi
Argelia Fernandez
black midi: Schlagenheim (Rough Trade)This young g-g-b-d is such a sensation in Britain its reviews thereread like competing thesis abstracts, and while all the talk ofmath-rock, King Crimson, and Japanese genres I've never heard of mightdiscourage a geezer like me from applying his magnifying glass to thelyric booklet, he'd already Spotified their album in the wake of agood-humored Pitchfork rave and was reminded of Pavement and 75Dollar Bill. The drummer is the virtuoso, the bassist the rock, theunmatched guitars the sound, and singer Geordie Greep . . . well, asPitchfork guy Jeremy D. Larson put it: "Imagine someone withthe name 'Geordie Greep' and that's exactly what he sounds like." Ontheir hysterical breakthrough "bmbmbm," Greep deploys his unhingedupper register to repeat variants on the phrase "She moves with apurpossse" until you're ready for a closer that ends with the Polishwords for please, thank you, and goodbye. Message: Brexitlurks. A MINUS