Stupid Bummed
Get Used to It [CS; Juniper Tree]

Remember when we all thought Ariel Pink was going to be awesome forever? How I could apply Stupid Bummed’s name to the joke that’s been played on us. Maybe applying the title of their latest cassette, Get Used to It also would prove apropos. Eh, I’m too down. That is, until I finished listening to Get Used to It. Then I listened again. And again. I remembered Ariel Pink is totally acceptable but also came to realize Stupid Bummed are stellar in their own right (and not to discount the unknown, fear death, or compare bands even if the shoe fits). Deconstructed pop that floats in the ghostly ether of every era and none; this is the stuff that has tunnel-jacked the deep underground into a spewing, uncontrollable derrick that should never be capped even if we run low on fossil fuels and creativity. Know why? Because sooner or later someone will harness that wasted energy to make new energy and someone like Stupid Bummed will come along to transform used-up pop to make it clean and viable.

Links: Juniper Tree

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