I still think Dylan is saying (something like) 'choostinate' and am in no hurry to gain a clearer understanding on this particular point.

'Do your fucking job.'

Deerhunter records are better when the words are indecipherable. I mean this as praise.

O for a record review without a narrative in it.

If there is something that could be called purely musical, I usually feel like Simon Reynolds ignores it as it suits him.

'how perfect the entire system of things'

There are kinds of music that you can only do if you can say 'baby' the right way.

Mark Richardson (Richard-San) as tastemaker. I can't think of many other reviewers I trust implicitly.

Too much fucking tympani.