Accommodatingly

I learned how to write reviews (if I do know how) partly by reading Mark Jenkins’ writings on pop music for City Paper when I was in high school in DC. Someone of high school age in DC now might learn how to write reviews instead by reading Andrew Beaujon. (Yes, the singer from Eggs.)

This week’s City Paper– not on the web as of June 8, alas (do they put their music reviews, as opposed to their listings, on the web at all?)– features Beaujon on the new Teenage Fanclub:

“What we’re after here is the reason men– and it’s almost always men– begin to idealize the past… For them, power pop is the music of choice (though alt-country will do in a pinch), and they can get positively misty relating how such-and-such focused the Byrds through a Black Flag-ground lens. In other words, the idealizers like pop music that isn’t popular, whose happy harmonies and soaring choruses still imply the sadness of being overlooked and left behind. It’s the perfect soundtrack for a life about to head into Act 2 without intermission.”

Sounds, um, familiar. Maybe too familiar.

Beaujon prefers the new Pernice Brothers, whom Chris and Ariane once told me I’d love: I’m still waiting to hear one song by them which strikes me as better than B+/A-. Nominations welcome…

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