A number of people (okay, two. two people) have expressed regret at the demise of Music for Middle-Brow Snobs. So I thought I’d resurrect it, at least fitfully. Here then is an electronicaish download for those interested.
And if you’re interested in what you’re getting, the tracklist is below.
1. Robotboy — Robyn
2. Suddenly the Trees Are Giving Way — Ulrich Schnauss
3. My LIttle Beautiful — µ-ziq
4. Carceres Ex Novum — Xeper
5. Night Knuckles — Clark
6. Donkey Rhubarb — Aphex Twin
7. Little Things — Martyn
8. Lasttrak —Plastikman
9. Cast Out Your Demons — Legion of Two
10.The Belldog — Eno-Moebius—Roedelius
Thanks! This looks really great!
That Robyn cover – the fumes of capitalist appropriative faux-queersocialist chic are choking me over here. Vaguely queer but maybe also hipster haircut! Black scarf, ready to be placed over one’s face at a moment’s notice to go rep anarchism in an anti-globalization riot! Hints of queer gendering, but not enough to interfere in the skeezy misogynistic straight guys’ masturbatory fantasies! Bits of Russian Constructivism, probably gotten via Shepard Fairey! Red tank top for that nice Comrade Worker/state-socialist youth bloc look! Stencil-tastic lettering, for that ironic-appropriation-of-military-aesthetics/street art thang that’s so popular with the kids these days!
Fucking jesus almighty!
So…not a Robyn fan, then?
I have to say; I quite like that cover. It’s probably the constructivist thing; I’m a sucker for that. I don’t think it’s especially skeezy; she’s fairly covered up, especially for a pop star…and Robyn generally looks somewhat butch, so I don’t think that look is just opportunistic for her here.
I’d agree that it appropriates and flattens a lot of tropes for easy consumption…but that’s pop.