It can be daunting, being in a band that winds up one of the influential acts of its day. If Boston’s Come, one of the most acclaimed groups to emerge from the early-’90s indie scene, had released nothing but debut album Eleven:Eleven, its importance for musicians in that scene would likely have been established anyway. Hard, noirish, frequently violent in its approach to blues patterns and styles slowed to a molasses-drip pace, few bands hit as heavy as Come. And few musicians, in Come or elsewhere, came as hard to the stage and the studio as Thalia Zedek. Now comes Via (Thrill Jockey), a record that finds her striking off in new aesthetic and collaborative territory. Zedek will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new feature on her.
Zedek: I have to admit that my inspiration for this “guest-editing project” is a book that I was once given by a dear friend called Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey. It actually is also the reason why I dreaded doing this. I think it’s the “paragraph” thing that reminds me of it. Anyway, these “deep thoughts” are inspirational daily meditations on life, and I highly recommend that everyone reads it.
Video after the jump.
