Tag: Lindsay Zoladz

• Camera Obscura’s Let’s Get Out of This Country

  

  Camera Obscura’s breakthrough Let’s Get Out of This Country was released ten years ago this June. Had I known of the record at the time, it would likely have been relegated to the category of guilty pleasure: something to be listened to but not shared; something enjoyable but not worthy. Rock music, especially after a nineties-alt makeover, was still…

  suspendedreason

  May 7, 2016

  Essays

  Camera Obscura, Lindsay Zoladz, Mumford & Sons, music, pop, poptimism, signaling, subculture rings, The Lumineers

• Regarding Rockism Pts 2 & 3: The Progress of Poptimism and the New Rockism

  Part One explored the origins and evolution of different authenticity models in American popular music criticism, breaking apart contemporary constructions into essentialist and personal models stemming, respectively, from European-American and African-American cultures. Now, in Parts Two and Three, poptimism’s rise to near-hegemonic acceptance is examined through the lens of Lana Del Rey and her shifting reception at Pitchfork…

  suspendedreason

  January 28, 2016

  Essays

  authenticity, Ellen Willis, intentionality, Lana Del Rey, Lindsay Zoladz, meta-criticism, music, nostalgia, persona, Pitchfork, poptimism, rockism, Ryan Dombol