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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 25/06/2026

Songs pt. 2: -Yael Naim: Wow -Alizade: Immigrant -North West: Piercing on My Hand -Dziarma: Moment -Dani Lia: Schwindelig (omgomgomg) -YENA: Catch Catch -JayJayy & Mordecai: Mngani Wami -Courtney Barnett: Mantis -Hannah Jane Lewis: Consolation Prize -Champuru Makhenzo et al: 444

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 25/06/2026

Never understood why Manny Farber singled out “Jules et Jim” in his White Elephant essay until I heard the new B0YG1RL album and realize I have a similar reaction (and think it sounds about as weird to say)

So this one poses a bit of a sticking point for me—I really disliked it on first listen and particularly disliked the arty framing it got in Pitchfork. I think that its avant hipster tendency to reduce global sounds to capital-N noise not only misses the spark in those sounds but often misses even the noise, like tuning your vacuum cleaner. The roughness—signifying as such—bothers me, because it’s too smooth, or smooth in the wrong way, like a rock tumbler’s artificial sea glass.

It has also helped me understand why Manny Farber included Jules et Jim in his White Elephant Art essay, a choice that made me lose the thread a bit when I first read it, because I found Jules et Jim scrappy and charming myself. There’s something about the totalizing control exhibited over this work that smothers the little embers—in performance, in rhythm, in noise—trying to fly out. In fact, the way Farber describes Jules et Jim is not far off from my thoughts about the album: “Jules et Jim, the one Truffaut film that seems held down to a gliding motion, is also cartoonlike but in a decorous, suspended way.”

But at the end of the day my body doesn’t reject this thing outright even though my brain is pretty convinced it’s right about this. Maybe it’s just a brain problem.

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 25/06/2026

“If I’m right about this, which I probably am not, history will eventually vindicate me that Olivia Rodrigo was a middling pop star but a decent senator.” m.youtube.com/watch?v=tIVb...

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