Dec
13

Douglas Martin’s Favorite Shoes: Sacred Bones, the Dirty Shoes Label of the Year

Douglas Martin listened to 1,498 records this year. By a rough estimate. A bunch of great indie labels released music this year. If I paid tribute to them all, it would feature over 100 albums with a word count that rivals The Iliad. Sub Pop, Matador, Merge, Domino, 4AD, Slumberland, Captured Tracks, Woodsist, In the… Continue reading »

Sep
20

Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: The Spellbinding Strangeness of Amen Dunes

Douglas Martin also enjoys Dunes. In spite of garnering comparisons to nearly every old “weird” singer / songwriter on the block (Skip Spence, Roky Erickson, Chris Knox, etc.), there’s something remarkably distinctive about the music of Amen Dunes. For starters, he sounds like he’s singing words from a different language. Sometimes it sounds like he’s… Continue reading »