Joan of Arc - C/D?

I wrote the most negative review I've ever written of anything about their album The Gap, for Magnet. A year later, they interviewed the frontman, and read the review back to him, asking what he thought. He was pretty cool about it.

I read somewhere that Tim Kinsella said that he's only listened to The Gap once since completion, after the first pressing. He apparently thinks they took Pro Tools editing too far. I've only heard a few songs from it but "Black Pants Make Cat Hairs Disappear," "Knife Fights Every Night," and "Me and America (The united Colors of the Gap)" are all neat songs. I guess my cleares statement on JOA is that hey use pretentiousness, art project gestures, in the way a brechtian would use melodramatic excess.. They don't really get much credit for being as interesting as they are.

Saw them live at some point and they were god-awful. they had an anti-Iraq war song that was so bad, I might change my party affiliation and vote for Bush just to spite Tim Kinsella. It would make my dad happy, tho.

We played with them once and they were kind of assholes.

They aren't assholes, they were being ironic. They were trying to make you question the asshole dialectic.

His brother Mike makes much better music as American Football or Owen.