Thrilled

Prince & the Revolution, Purple Rain. Jesus Christ. Perfect. Theatrical and building––everything builds!––and cascading and epic. The songs are seemingly endless, and appear to be floating along in some sort of thick purple liquid substance, never getting stuck and sliding easily from one Big Idea to the next. GREAT

Tortoise, Millions Now Living Will Never Die. …so I did what anybody would do: smoked a bowl, put a CD case over the time display on my stereo so I wouldn’t be able to tell what track I was on, and put my headphones on. Lying there in the dark with my plush seafoam green throw blanket I already felt like I was underwater. Then “Djed” blew my fucking head open. GREAT