GI: Sound Shapes Review

GI: The age of the Long Play record has passed. Our attention spans are shorter, multi-tasking is prerequisite to modern life, and there are so few ideas worthy of more than a few minutes of our time. Pixar’s shorts tell better stories than their last few feature films, and Les Savy Fav’s Rome Written Upside Down EP is a better listening experience than any one of their albums. (So are TV On The Radio’s Young Liars EP, Alice In Chains’ Jar Of Flies EP, The Beta Band’s Champion Versions EP, The Undertones’ Teenage Kicks EP, and Fugazi’s self-titled EP. Let’s not forget that pretty much every song you’d ever recognize by Aphex Twin is also from an Extended Play single.) -