Affective Dispositions

Please you it might not, but I will let you know who it has been on the nightstand and in the headphones.

NIGHTSTAND

1) Dean Young: Embryoyo
2) Charles Bernstein: Girly Man
3) Joshua Clover: Totality for Kids

and poems by: Rachel M. Simon, Sommer Browning, Noah Eli Gordon, Mathias Svalina, Michael Schiavo, Piotr Gwiazda, Adam Chiles, Graham Foust and Morgan Schuldt. Inexhaustible.

HEADPHONES: Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

Kevin Barnes, aka Georgie Fruit, lead singer and songwriter of the gayest parade of all the Elephant Six bands, Of Montreal has returned with a new album that doesnt yearn so much to break your heart as it does want to break your heart but with a glammy synthpop hammer. O.M. should have been named of the lo-fi, of the quirky, of the psychedlic, of the hyperactive, of the humorous, of the emotional, of characters and fictions, and now of the synthesizer. Their last album Satanic Panic introduced us to a new sugar high sadness of glam that cosmically dances you into heavy lids and desperately seeking more bass line and any other lines that might reconcile yourself to. But make no mistake, Hissing Fauna is an album about a breakup, the dissolution of a relationship, a narrative of putting a partnership to an end. I'm reminded of Marvin Gaye's HERE MY DEAR if Marvin had traded his soulsex throat for a bouncy vocal of a caroller which isn't to say that Mr. Barnes Neal Sedakaesque vocals aren't charming, if not down right appealing. Salacious, even. Go to him. You won't be let down.