I was about to write about this album, one of my all-time favorites, when I realized that I already had, just about a year ago when I first started expanding from interviews to essays. I was pleased to see that I was worse at it then than I am now; I hope this piece's archival/anthropological value outweighs the slight quality dropoff..

DJ Screw’s music goes well with drugs - I believe this has been well-established - but the underappreciated reason for this is that DJ Screw’s music goes well with everything. I vividly remember my first encounter with it: my first year in college, fresh off an early exit from whatever that insanely bad Intro to Business course was, I found myself in dire need of a restroom. Naturally, I was wearing headphones; while wandering the halls, I absentmindedly threw on DJ Screw’s Vol.

You know that movie trope where a character experiences some sort of dissociation or great trauma, expressed through a slow-motion shot of them walking among a crowd with either silence or totally indiscernible sound? A bit like this. Walking around listening to Phantom Brickworks is a guaranteed shortcut to that sensation. The loops, slow and ambient as hell, are at once massively spacious and just present enough to drown out any outside stimuli.

I'd semi-intentionally avoided the last several Tyler, the Creator albums, but people have been so over the moon about this that I had to check it out. A negative: Tyler's voice and delivery are so distinctive that it's virtually impossible to separate this from his prior work (a problem if you haven't been a diehard throughout). A positive: this thing is legitimately good.

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Many of my King Krule thoughts made it into the only TMT review that I've been fully satisfied with, but the lad simply won't stop releasing music. I wasn't sure that I was ready to write about this, but I just walked home in an awful mix of wind and light snow and it has suddenly become quite relatable. King Krule's is a sound that evokes a very specific unease, one which may very well exist only in his own mind, colored by whatever wretched filter exists between him and the rest of the world.

I don't have much to say about this beyond what prefaced the first part, but it did occur to me that I should share a small, otherwise unpublished segment of the conversation so that you could read the entire interview in Jenny's voice if you so chose. Here it is. This is the second and final part of the interview, which immediately followed the end of the first.

Turns out that it's mass seduction, not mass education - sorry for misleading, although that's probably an improvement. I don't find myself coming across much St. Vincent content on this good internet these days, but I did manage to see this described in a couple places as St.