As 2013 has come to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors.
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 like to keep the image of chess in my mind when I’m working.
I like how endless the game is, yet it exists within such a generic simple landscape. I like to think of that. I have filing cabinets in my flat filled with drawings. I love to look at them and know that within this dull steel ugly thing there are beautiful and emotional and living things.
There’s a Polish TV series called Dekalog that I love. Ten films each loosely based on the 10 commandments. They’re all set on the same grey council block.
I think of that image, the grey building with so many different relationships and worlds and connections and conversations being made within.
Video after the jump.
