Just as the name suggests, My Liner Notes takes from the nostalgic art form of an LP’s liner notes, which can be found within the inner sleeves and inserts of dusty records and cassette tapes. The personal essays found on this blog contain anecdotal and factual material which celebrate the visceral and emotional connection we all share with music. These analytical, humorous, and often poignant opinion-editorials are always delivered with the kind of brutal honesty you can only expect from a music nerd.
Step aside Neon Indian, Memory Tapes and Washed Out, because DOM just might be your favourite new chillwave group with this obvious summer anthem.
The music video for “Living in America” is a tongue-in-cheek commentary on all the kitschy aspects of popular American culture that many misconstrue as being sexy.
Speaking of chillwave, I’m not sure who penned the sub-genre name, but it seems appropriate, or at the very least, appropriately dumb enough.
I imagine the name was spawn out of the following conversation between two college kids who were listening to Ariel Pink on their MacBook while taking tokes of Mother Earth’s finest:
Dude #1: Dude, this music is, like, transcendent. It’s like it’s traveling through our bodies.
Dude #2: That’s because it IS traveling through our bodies. Our pinnas collect the sound, after which the sound wave travels through the auditory canal which funnels the sound to the ear drum causing it to vibrate. The ear drum then amplifies the sound by vibration of bones, converting the sound energy into mechanical energy. The cochlea in the inner ear converts the vibrations into electrical impulses before sending signals to the brain, in which it interprets as sound.
Dude #1: Dude, I have no idea what you’re talking about. All’s I’m saying is that this music is, like, chill, you know? Like chill sound waves, you know, like chillwave? Yeah! Chillwave!
Dude #2: Fuck, I hate you and everything around me.
