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THE BLOW - Poor Aim: Love Songs
| PitchFork | | So the idea for Poor Aim: Love Songs was to make a short record of radio-ready pop hits, at the time a new idea for the Blow. The first collaboration between Khaela Maricich (previously the only Blow member) and Jona Bechtolt (YACHT), they put it out in 2004 as the inaugural Pregnancy Series release, curated dually by Portland hometeamers States Rights Records and Slender Means Society, and had it reissued by K this year after commissioning remixes (from Lucky Dragons, Strategy, and Alan Fortarte of White Rainbow, among others) for most of the original tracks....full text |
| | Drowned in sound | | Recently experiencing Swordwind’s pint-size powerhouse metal full of excessively fantastic and virtuosic symphonic references for the first time, I decide that I am sick of this tinktink –beepbeep minimalist indie-electro meltdown. I think it’s about time everyone destroyed their new rave records and do the complete opposite: start some new prog-rock bands. I get all wound up only to be wound down by the twinkling D.I.Y. appeal of The Blow’s technologically updated re-issuing (the 12” version has been available for ages) of their Poor Aim: Love Songs. Maybe I’m not so ready for this dance-pop trend of quirky quality to end just yet....full text |
| | Popmatters | | The reissue has become a double-edged sword in the musical world. In some cases, the reissue is a necessity, allowing essential, long out-of-print albums (say, Neil Young’s On the Beach) to see the light of day. In other cases, the reissue is used to cash in on a band’s sudden popularity by hocking its early and often uninspiring work. This all makes for some anxiety when a band I truly admire, like the Blow, offers a reissue in the form of Poor Aim: Love Songs....full text |
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