Christian Iszchak

@humanfranklin I've always* assumed that "Flag Pin" is about a political candidate maintaining a degree of integrity amidst electioneering customs but now I realise the song doesn't say that outright. Can you settle the issue, please? *since 20 October.

The new Human Hearts album is out! VIABLE (LP &/or dl) collects 14 singles/comp/digital tracks, most w/o a physical release. Includes guest shots by Jenny Toomey & others, plus covers of The Everly Bros., Pete Seeger, & Wckr Spgt. And the sleeve is great. thehumanhearts.bandcamp.com/album/viable

Following the advice of the marketing team here at An Acute Case and sharing every, er, 14th column. Trust the experts. Featuring: The Human Hearts, MJ Lenderman, A. Savage, Todd Snider, and David Murray/Questlove/Ray Angry. open.substack.com/pub/christiani…

@FakeNadine Superkicks eye roll

ok i'm gonna sound like a boomer but i think there should be a quota for trading chop spots on wrestling shows. if one match has a trading chop spots the other matches should not have trading chop spots

@FakeNadine Outstanding movie

only real ones know

I'm not about to apologise because I take my cue from old white guys. open.substack.com/pub/christiani…

@trillmoregirls And at this point they're mostly just name dropping. Can't wait till westside gunn raps a whole 16 bars consisting solely of hold-reverse-counter reverse

@trillmoregirls Then again, after 30 years of drug trade references, some more arcane knowledge most rap fans don't have won't hurt them

@SotoAlfred This one of the least likely Alfred Soto posts imaginable

A major question: do you prefer a parking spot closer to where you wanna be or a farther one but shaded?

The great albums are coming thick and fast now, though opinion is divided on how to indicate a collaboration. Multiplication sign or ampersand? Toughie. christianiszchak.substack.com/p/an-acute-cas…

@SotoAlfred You fail to mention Ian McCulloch's passing resemblance to Sammy Guevara

I don't get this band, as I explain, but they exist as the missing link between Siouxsie and the Banshes and the Doors' dumber fantasias: goth with a reason for darkness. Happy birthday, Ian McCullough. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2020/05/25/you…

@SotoAlfred My heart leaps when I see she in a film. There's no one like her. Saw Orlando for the first time recently and was blown away.

On Tilda Swinton, among the most fearless of working actors. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2023/04/29/on-…

"Willie Nelson is the moon" is a conspiracy theory I could get behind. Also featuring boygenius, PinkPantheress, Emperor X, and Lori McKenna/Barry Dean/Luke Laird christianiszchak.substack.com/p/an-acute-cas…

Meanwhile, farmers on all sides are muck-spreading (pig shit, I think), this blackbird refuses to build her nest anywhere other than above our door, and the man opposite is doing mechanical things to the tractor in his drive (blue with orange wheels)

@paranoiacs Embarrassingly, I don't even know who this is. My education starts here

Happy birthday to Lowell George, one of the great polymath musical geniuses of the 20th century and one of the most idiosyncratic people ever to walk the Earth. Here's an appreciation I wrote about his life and work for Oxford American a couple years ago. oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue…

Reviews of Fever Ray, Mach-Hommy, Quasi, and two albums by Star Feminine Band (released before any of them are out of their teens and before one of them has even reached her teens) christianiszchak.substack.com/p/an-acute-cas…

Two chapters in to Vanity Fair and Becky Sharp is already my hero. Time (and sixty-five more chapters) will tell if that's misjudged

@SotoAlfred Those last couple of sentences in the NP review are wonderful

boygenius release a great album. Queer self-assertion as queer communitarianism -- a confession as manifesto. The New Pornographers release their worst. wp.me/pzXeC-h5s

A couple of hyperpop geniuses, plus Miley Cyrus' songwriting advance, Iris Dement's liberal orthodoxy, Caroline Polachek's search for connection, and Sam Smith's entrenched tastefulness. An Acute Case: 31 March 2023 open.substack.com/pub/christiani…

@BrazilBeat1 Great stuff. Thank you