Popsheep

A zillion other people have already written about the this a long time ago, and much more articulately that I could. I don’t know anything about Ms. Apple and couldn't name any of her earlier songs even if I wanted to. My first instinct was to ignore the whole thing, but after reading a particularly good rant by John Darnielle (of the Mountain Goats fame) on his Last Plane to Jakarta blog I thought that I would have to see what all the Internet hubbub is about.

First things, I'm not going to talk about the whole Wilco-esque record label saga surrounding the album. You can read about it on probably any other music blog. I will, however, comment on how amazing some of the songs are. The song posted below is one of my favorites on the album for a number of reasons: it manages to be extremely rhythmic and percussive without actually using drums, is filled with a bunch of interesting tempo changes, but is still quite hummable with a great chorus. The rest of the album is all over the place, and is quite experimental for a mainstream pop album. But I guess that’s precisely why her label decided it wasn’t worth their money to release it.

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