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Album Of The Week: SPELLLING Mazy Fly

11:29 AM EST on February 19, 2019

SPELLLING - Mazy Fly

Before we can even discuss this week's best albums, there is something that needs to be addressed: band names. Band names are bad now. I honestly cannot remember the last time I heard of a new artist and thought, "oh, that's a cool name." It just doesn't happen anymore. Instead: half-assed puns, cutesy wordplay, utterly banal names of non-evocative inanimate objects (looking at you, Car Seat Headrest). It's reached crisis level. Now: Maybe the Bay Area singer and producer Chrystia Cabral -- a great name! -- has deep personal reasons for using the name SPELLLING. Maybe it's a cosmically mystical thing. But as far as I can tell, it's just the word "spelling," intentionally misspelled. That's it. That's the whole joke. It's not the worst offender in the bad-band-name Olympics, but a name that goofy can only be a hindrance when you're making genuinely fascinating music. And SPELLLING is making genuinely fascinating music.