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Two days, two area songsmiths getting their tracks reviewed in Pitchfork.com‘s “Track Reviews” feature. Not a bad precedent, I’d say.
So how’d it go? Well, let’s break it down…
Yesterday, Pitchfork reviewed the new song from “No Reasons”–a song we’ve already gone on record as saying that we dig mightily–from VEGA‘s released-last-night-at-The-Lounge Well Known Pleasures EP. The tastemakers at the Chicago-based site give the song a six out of 10, which, sure, we’ll go ahead and cry foul on. Like I said, we really like the song.
Today, however, the site’s giving the new Rhett Miller (where isn’t this guy these days?) single “I Need To Know Where I Stand” the very same rating (stream it on Miller’s Myspace page) And, well, yeah, we kinda agree on this one.
The song’s a little plain as jingle-jangle goes, a little too twee, maybe, for our tastes as well. But it is a little darker than most Miller solo songs, as we’d been promised, and that’s refreshing, even if a friend once hilariously quipped that “Dark, for Miller, is four o’clock in the afternoon, as opposed to three.” Regardless, it’s a nice, if not life-changing song–and a promising indicator of what the rest of the Salim Nourallah-produced disc will entail.
