“I am rooting for you, Merrill Garbus. I like your record, and I hope you make many more. I want you to be a genius, and I have no reason to believe that won’t happen. But maybe don’t sell the puppets, because maybe you are doomed.”

Chuck Klosterman on tUnE-yArDs

I really like what Chuck Klosterman writes, I’ve been baffled by the number of times that people have told me I should give tUnE-yArDs a listen, and I’m puzzled by what exactly people like about this music every time I listen to Merrill Garbus.

So, Klosterman’s short piece on the critical darling of 2011 and indie music’s obsession with having a critical darling — and then later, maybe collectively slapping its head at its selection — was just what I needed this morning.

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  1. thatswerapping said: Maura Johnston has some reasonable counterpoints to Klosterman’s write-up at The Village Voice: blogs.villagevoice.com/…
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