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BLONDE REDHEAD- Misery Is A Butterfly
Is this the sound of history alive and well in the core of the Big Apple, an alternative worldview at odds with the official one, perhaps unique to immigrants? The remnants of a modernist impulse that has somehow withstood the storms of postmodernity, a bulwark against the retrograde fanaticism at home and abroad, a counterpoising of old cosmopolitanism against the grain of market-driven globalization? A resuscitation of the critical synthesis of art and popular culture that seemed to die after the May events of 68, a fanning of the embers of intelligence against the pressure of narrow-minded entertainment, celebrating play and love opposite the impact of cost-benefit analyses and instrumentality? Blonde Redhead suggests all this—WHILE ROCKING. They get better and better with each recording, more individualized but also more universal, an underground power that caters to our minds and bodies, available to everyone but still under the radar of officialdom. Now on 4AD, the future stretches out before them and us, promising a better world—WHILE ROCKING.
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