Munma - Black Tuesday - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Richard Youngs - Inside the Future [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/08/2016

Munma - Previews&Premises [COMPACT DISCS] UK - Import date 09/20/2011

Muna is magic. What other band could have stamped the forsaken year of 2021 with spangles and pom-poms - made you sing (and maybe even believe) that InchLife's so fun, life's so fun,Inch during what may well have been the most uneasy stretch of your life? InchSilk Chiffon,Inch Muna's instant-classic cult smash, featuring the band's new tag head Phoebe Bridgers, hit the gray skies of the pandemic's year-and-a-half mark like a double rainbow. Pitchfork called it a Inchswirl of stomach butterflies,Inch NPR a Inchqueerworm,Inch Rolling Stone Inchone of the year's sweetest melodies, radiating the kind of pure pop bliss so many bands go for but almost never get this right.Inch For Naomi McPherson, Muna's guitarist and producer, it was a Inchsong for kids to have their first gay kiss to.Inch And several thousand unhinged Twitter and TikTok memes bloomed. Katie Gavin, Muna's lead singer and songwriter, wrote InchSilk ChiffonInch right after finishing the band's 2019 album, Saves the World. That was an LP whose lead single began InchSo I heard the bad news/ Nobody likes me and I'm gonna die alone in my bedroom/ Looking at strangers on my telephone,Inch and which ended with a hypnotic, self-searching confession about failure and consolation. Since the beginning of their career, Muna has embraced pain as a bedrock of longing, a center of radical truth, a part of growing up, and an inherent factor of marginalized experience - the band's members belong to queer and minority communities, and play for these fellow-travelers above all. But in InchSilk Chiffon,Inch there was just longing, and it was blissfully requited at that. InchIt's kind of a smooth-brain song,Inch Gavin says. InchSaves the World was therapy on a record, and I was starting to see changes in my life, more moments of joy. It's a big deal that someone like me could write that smooth!Inch What makes the confetti-gun r