As has been copiously observed elsewhere, most of the attitude which underpinned hip hop from the mid-80s onwards was derived from films from the decade immediately preceding, commonly known as the 70s, whose iconic imagery tended to center… [ read more ]
About Jaakko Älänen
Jaakko Älänen has written 6 articles so far, you can find them below.
R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now
The life of the professional musician (by which I mean musicians who are routinely checked for in their own right, not all you contemptible anonymous session bozos) would be a great deal easier if they didn’t have to deal with listeners, a… [ read more ]
Paul Simon – So Beautiful or So What
It is most unfortunate that age hardens the parts of the brain that didn’t need hardened, and softens the parts that were previously needed to offset the hard parts; the discovery that this process is at least 60% complete is generally… [ read more ]
Britney Spears – Femme Fatale
Computers are inscrutable, like cats! Unlike cats, computers sort through generations of human eccentricities with the aim of dividing stupid from smart, with the aim of finding themselves back where they started; at that aimed point, they… [ read more ]
The Antlers – Burst Apart
Catharsis is a straightforward process: a prolonged bodily spasm existing in order to flush out what is within, with the end result that what was once within becomes outwith. Once in is out, into the tight space where once there was an in floods… [ read more ]
Battles – Gloss Drop
The complexities of the influence that Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has exerted over global pop music since his 1970s ascent to immortality are not a particularly direct reflection of his music: non-afrobeat music that takes heed of afrobeat generally… [ read more ]
“I call cakes big ol’ cookies. I call noodles long-ass rice. Fried chicken is fry-fry chicky-chick. Chicken parm is chicky chicky parm parm. Chicken cacciatore? Chicky catch.” -