Gianni de Falco

While healthy relationships are built on the mundane, the juice is in the intense, indulgent world of fantasy. “Your entanglement with joy/Was not about her/Catharsis of the heart/Is a personal affair,” fantasy of a broken heart’s Bailey Wollowitz sings in the closing moments of their ambitious debut, Feats of Engineering. While heartbreak propels much of this record, it would be reductive to call it a breakup album.

by Gianni de Falco Bright Green Field Squid, Warp Records, 2021 In his essay ‘Death Rock 2000’, Frank Kogan had some prescient predictions about the future of rock music: Anyway, I don’t know if this [Rolling] Stones dynamic (and by the Stones I mean the Stooges-Pistols-[Guns N’ Roses] as well) will remain a central tension for music in the twenty-first century, since punk nihilism-insanity-despair needs a social context of optimism to react against, an irrational sense that we’re heading...

by Gianni di Falco Bright Green Field Squid, Warp Records, 2021 In his essay ‘Death Rock 2000’, Frank Kogan had some prescient predictions about the future of rock music: Anyway, I don’t know if this [Rolling] Stones dynamic (and by the Stones I mean the Stooges-Pistols-[Guns N’ Roses] as well) will remain a central tension for music in the twenty-first century, since punk nihilism-insanity-despair needs a social context of optimism to react against, an irrational sense that we’re heading...