Damn, Applesauce is killer.

I don’t know. I think it sounds pretty cool. A jarring first, second, third listen, sure, but I never (rarely) feel like AC does jarring for the sake of it. There’s definitely melody here — all you “is it even a song??”-folk gotta check yourselves.

One thing I will say. My first listen was with shitty earbuds and a low-quality Youtube stream. A few hours later, I got to blast the track on my home rig. And it sounds killer. Maybe this is an album whose relentless makes most sense when it warps your speakers. Or live.

In any case, my hopes are high.

Hit play, expecting disaster — was literally dumbstruck. This shit is really, really good, everyone!

Perhaps one day the kid’s band will create their very own Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

Really interesting song. Much more straightforward, I think, than his older stuff, with just about no looping or whistling to speak of.

If y’all happen to see Bird’s TED talk from a while back, take note of the early version of this song he plays there — the progression from demo to full track is really cool.

All in all, I’m psyched for this album.

I really don’t think any of these are as funny as you think they are.

“That’s too late with all the talk shows booking him.”

I think it was ‘too late’ when his album hit number 2, with 104,000 copies. And just to be clear, my use of ‘too late’ was totally ironic. The idea that a band loses its appeal when gaining a larger audience is just so bogus it’s not even funny.

can’t wait to hear that joke a thousand times this week.