Sean Fennell
Freelance Music Journalist at Freelance
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2 weeks ago |
floodmagazine.com | Sean Fennell
In the comedy of Tim Robinson, one of two things is usually true: You have one of Robinson’s many characters—oftentimes some form of sad-sack everyman—enduring the perils of a world he doesn’t recognize, or the mundane universe we all acknowledge as normal is interrupted by Robinson as a man for whom even the simplest of human interactions seems helplessly complex and ripe for chaos.
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1 month ago |
floodmagazine.com | Sean Fennell
There’s a fine line between poetry and nonsense, a line that filmmaker Joel Potrykus has made a point of straddling for years. His films—which include his 2014 breakout Buzzard and, most recently, 2018’s Relaxer—often revolve around angry, disillusioned, immature men circling the drain of their own psyches. Men of not only arrested development, but development on death row, awaiting complete annihilation.
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1 month ago |
xpn.org | Sean Fennell
Indie-folk is a soft genre with the power to move listeners. Unfortunately, it is also a genre that, in my experience, gets a bit of a bad rap. At its worst, indie-folk can lean a little too far into Starbucks-core background music for its own good. But that is simply the tip of a very large iceberg, the one percent of a style worth exploring much more deeply.
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2 months ago |
floodmagazine.com | Sean Fennell
Perfume GeniusGloryMATADORABOVE THE CURRENTIt’s been over two months since Mike Hadreas released the debut single from his latest Perfume Genius record, Glory. After dozens of listens, a handful of views of the accompanying music video, and a thorough read-through of the lyrics sheet, I remain as delightfully baffled and utterly floored as the first time I’d heard it. Structurally interesting, pristinely produced, utterly tactile, and yet tantalizingly obscure, Hadreas is just absolutely cooking.
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2 months ago |
pastemagazine.com | Sean Fennell
Your parents are people. This notion, both obvious and confounding, is one that can take years to fully settle in, if it ever really does. When we are young, there is something comforting in believing that them to be something else, something closer to forces of nature than nuanced human beings – faultless, emotionless, steadfast.
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