Philip Fibiger

Glenn McDonald’s The War Against Silence has a review up this week of both the new Throwing Muses record and the Production Club record. I always find his reviews interesting, even if I don’t agree with his assessment of a particular record. In this case, I think he’s pretty harsh about the Muses back catalog (which I love large parts of), but I absolutely agree with his opinion of the new record. In particular, this sentence really stuck with me, because I think it’s pretty close to how I think about and understand music.

The angular “Civil Disobedience” sounds like it could be Kristin’s attempt to explain to Tanya what she meant about how “Slow Dog” could have been the best song the Amps didn’t record.

Maybe that doesn’t make any sense to you, but it does to me. The new Muses record is great, and I’m psyched about seeing them in LA next week, which will hopefully begin a month and a half of great concerts I’m planning to go to in LA, including Neko Case, Richard Thompson, and a couple nights of Built To Spill at the House of Blues. After a couple months of pretty miserable concert schedules in Los Angeles, there’s plenty to see.