Gender neutral

Listened to in the past few hours :-

The Thermals - ‘Fuckin’ A’, most of ‘Now We Can See’ and a bit of ‘The Body, The Blood, The Machine’.

Usually saying that a band is remarkably similar from record to record would be a bad thing. When that band sound like this though, I really couldn’t be less bothered. Bracing is the best word I can think of though it doesn’t really do it justice.

Sleater-Kinney - ‘The Woods’

That is what guitars are supposed to sound like. Catchy, energetic and atmospheric. Bitchin’, basically.*

The Pixies - ‘Surfer Rosa’

It’s all been said before really, except that it’s taken me longer than I expected to get into this and it’s still the only one of their records I listen to often. Something about them confuses me, not too sure what it is.

Absolutely nothing by The Hold Steady. I should be ashamed.


I just finished reading QED, not the Feynman book but the Peter Parnell play about Feynman that originally starred Alan Alda. Not a huge amount of new info but structured very nicely, I’d have loved to have seen the original production. If you have no idea what the hell I’m on about, buy yourself a copy of ‘Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman!’ by the titular Richard Feynman, well worth... well anything you’re likely to be charged for it anyway.

*Aren’t you proud of me, I managed to comment on Sleater-Kinney without mentioning they’re not actually guys, which everyone in rock music is apparently legally required to be. I will buy a sandwich for anyone who reviews their next album and at no point mentions their gender and doesn’t seem like they’re avoiding it to make a point.