Artist: Edie Sedgwick
Title: Things Are Getting Sinister & Sinisterer
Label: Dischord
Genre: Electronic
Bitrate: 145kbit av.
Time: 00:33:46
Size: 37.21 mb
Rip Date: 2009-04-21
Str Date: 2008-11-11
1. Sissy Spacek 2:52
2. Mary-Kate Olsen 2:49
3. Angelina Jolie 3:14
4. Anthony Perkins 3:15
5. March Of The Penguins 3:03
6. Bambi / G.W. Bush 3:22
7. O.D.B. 3:40
8. Red Dawn 3:30
9. Rob Lowe 3:33
10. Edie Sedgwick II 4:28
Release Notes:
This was only ever released on Vinyl & digitally, But... they
sent out promo's on CD's, so enjoy.
Moyer's been releasing music as Edie Sedgwick (I assume we're
all familiar with the Warholian supermodel/superstar
originally of this name) since 2001. True to Warholian
philosophy, Moyer has been examining the various aspects of
fame and celebrity in the music he makes under the Sedgwick
moniker. On Things Are Getting Sinister And Sinisterer, the
songs he writes are often as entertaining as they are
intelligent. Often they╞re more the former than the latter,
but don╞t hold that against him.
It's easy to listen to TAGSAS and not pick-up on anything that
Moyer's saying just because the music holds it's own so well.
Moyer creates killer dance beats that he layers beautifully
with sharp bass lines, synths and his always-spot-on vocal
delivery. Every track, other than the chill closer 'Edie
Sedgwick II', bristles with a dance-rock energy of LCD
Soundsystem quality.
When one does actually repress the desire to dance enough to
listen to what Moyer's saying, his insight in regards to his
subject matter is interesting, such as in 'Angelina Jolie'
where he sings 'condescend to say whenαthe line between good
works and publicity,÷ about her adoption of children from
Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam. At other times Moyer can be
hilariously bitter, like when he sings about Mary-Kate Olsen's
anorexia in (you guessed it) 'Mary-Kate Olsen', musing, ⌠good
g-ddamn, the cocaine is the culprit / great g-ddamn, the
cocaine is the culprit / good g-ddamn, the tweenies are a
culprit / great g-ddamn, the meanies are a culprit / good
g-ddam, Jared Leto is a culpritα÷ And then sometimes he'll
just have fun, like when he sings about the cheeseball 80's
anti-communist movie Red Dawn, in a song of the same name.
It's interesting that Moyer chose to perform under the
Sedgwick moniker. Sedgwick is a tragic and peculiar figure in
modern pop culture; seemingly destroyed by fame, she spent
much of the last years of her life recovering from drug abuse
and in psychiatric care. Moyer, however, deals more in comedy
than he does in tragedy, though there is an admittedly dark
side in some songs such as the aforementioned ⌠Mary-Kate
Olson÷. At times the argument could be made that the two
overlap, perhaps due to the irony of how fame - something many
people would (literally) die for - often destroys, both
mentally and physically, those who achieve it.
While an artist with a philosophy is always cool, it only goes
so far unless the work itself is quality. Luckily, Edie
Sedgwick's TAGSAS is a kick-ass dance album that satisfies the
head while keeping the ass in shake.