They Might Be Giants have resurrected their ingenious Dial-A-Song concept by streaming a new song each week of 2015 at www.dialasong.com. MAGNET’s Matthew Fritch reviews them all.
“All The Lazy Boyfriends” wins the award for Song Title Most Likely To Be Mistaken For A Morrissey Song Title.
Glean, TMBG’s new full-length comprising nearly all the 2015 Dial-A-Song entries to date, has now been out more than a week. There’s obviously no need to evaluate the songs themselves (except when I’ve been too pithy with the weekly song reviews, such as the case of this week), but there are broader points to make. To be clear, I’m not about to write a tired eulogy for the album as a complete artistic statement; what bothers me more about modern music consumption is that we’ve all become micromanagers of our collections, playlists and stations. It’s exhausting. The case against hand-selecting single songs for your iPod/phone/whatever isn’t about limiting choice, it’s about relieving the pressure of constantly having to make choices.
File-A-Song: The Dreaded 7/10
