Release Date: Feb 21, 2012
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
Record label: Hush Records
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Recently, my friend and I were talking about the internet — that the website, as a canvas, is like a new Chauvet or Lascaux, only less tangible and with a predilection for whims. Prehistoric horses and deer and rhinoceroses and, perhaps, humans seemingly have no need for pretense. (Perhaps my opinions regarding prehistoric representation are too conservative.) They may or may not function as symbols (we don’t know).
Young Portland tunesmith gets the social network bug. Rob Hughes 2012 Anyone familiar with Peter Broderick’s previous two releases on Bella Union – 2008’s Home and its follow-up How They Are, which arrived two year later – may well be expecting more of that gentle singer-songwriterly stuff on this latest work. Instead he’s opted to take a more expansive, experimental tack.
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