A Year of Music

Stuck in my head this morning: Dan Deacon’s “Okie Dokie”, the fourth song to get stuck in my head from Spiderman of the Rings in the last couple weeks. Now that I’ve had a chance to hear his older work, I’m even more impressed by what a wide-spectrum achievement Spiderman of the Rings really is. I like his older stuff, albeit in a much calmer way, but it comes from a much more academic / heady place.

While showering, some sort of monster complicated techno song barged its way into my noggin, and it took me a few minutes to figure out it was something from the new Clark. It stayed stuck in my head, too, even after I put on Autechre’s Untilted. I kept wanting Untilted to be beatier, like the Clark, but it wasn’t. Listening to it did lead me to wonder, though: why do Autechre bury all the pretty tracks at the ends of their albums?