Tracks 3/6

Psychic Ills "January Rain" 2006
Psychic Ills play the kind of stuff that, no offence to them, is great background music. Their new album is a great background album, joining the ranks of Music For Airports, all the new Einstruzende Neubaten records, and every Godspeed album ever. I like it. SIDE NOTE: Brooklyn gets a lot of pats on the back for having the awesomest music scene around. That's most of the reason I moved here. However, most (99.99999999%) of the bands I see here I don't particularly like. This may seem like a pretty low regard for our music scene, but keep in mind there are, by my last count, about one hundred trillion bands in Brooklyn, so that still leaves around around 100 good bands here, including Psychic Ills, the Bellmer Dolls, TV On The Radio, The Rapture, The Liars, all of DFA Records, and every band that I am in (Not so fast there Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, get back in line). Does your town have one hundred good bands? Shut up Montreal.

Antarctica "Absence" 1999
If Antarctica could have held out for another few years until post punk and New Order got cool again then they could have gotten the respect, acclaim, and piles of money they deserved. They'd be on MTV2 and Volkswagen's cash would be buying their girlfriend's drinks. Oh well, at least they got that one sweet album off. This is the first song on that album and is also mixtape gold.