Word: hitchcockã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...influences writing this thesis have been Henry James, Aimee Bender, Haruki Murakami, Marguerite Duras, Hitchcock??s Vertigo and Russian patricidal literature (my father thinks he’s going to be the “bad guy” in the story, but I don’t think there’ll be any daddy-killing...
...Moonlight re-release. These lo-fi relics, recorded on boom box and two-track, capture the momentum that would carry into the album. Scattered pieces of “Old Pervert” shimmer with an energetic squeal still barely held at bay, fading in and out with Hitchcock??s humorously acidic ramble. The title track “Underwater Moonlight” crawls forth like the giant squid that surprises its protagonists—a little slower than the final cut, but tipsy with the same effervescent guitar-coaxed glow. “Alien” lurches...
...time of Moonlight, the Soft Boys had no idea they’d made a piece of history. Rew, who seems exceedingly modest of his own musical career but pleased with Hitchcock??s organization of the band and the album’s reception, says, “In 1980, I made the album blindly, really, without any thought as to how many people would like it or not like it.” Now he describes the Soft Boys as “the great love of my life.” As to whether...
Indeed, the album both bubbles with light and raises blisters on an electrified, shifting surface of streamlined, skittering guitars, snide vocals and soaring vocal harmonies. Hitchcock??s lyrical ruminations range from love to war, from playful nips to vicious gnawing. “Kingdom of Love” begins with a bouncing groove and positively rings with light, though the lyrics are a surreal treatment of overwhelming sexual fixation: “You’ve been laying eggs under my skin / Now they’re hatching out under my chin / Now there’s tiny...