Unreal (ATP) is Daniel Blumberg’s first Hebronix album since leaving Yuck, the band he fronted from 2010 to 2012 and quit to “work on other things.” Now that it’s released, we can understand why he left. Produced by Neil Hagerty (Royal Trux, Howling Hex), Unreal isn’t Yuck, and it isn’t supposed to be. The clouds of guitar noise that saturate the album are quieter, moodier, more unsettling; the singing wearier, stretched thin as an old E string; and the songs more introspective, turning inward with lines like, “I’ve got some things to do/Some private things to do” and “I’m thinking about things/I already know.” Blumberg will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our recent Hebronix feature.
Blumberg: I bought this because on the back of the DVD Ingmar Bergman calls it “a work of genius.”
It’s a biopic about the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. Peter Watkins didn’t use any professional actors, and all the characters look into the camera the whole time. It looks like an odd documentary and is 221 minutes long.
The Norwegians were upset about it when it came out because it was quite a strange way of presenting one of their national treasures. I think they tried to sabotage it. Anyway, Eureka re-issued it with a nice book.
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