katherine st asaph

music writer

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

Specifically, I think the album places itself in direct textual conversation with the reckoning on fame and parasocial fan attachment that Chappell Roan invoked this year, and that Mitski, Allison Crutchfield, Sidney Gish and others have also addressed.

https://t.co/vBT66KRKuc

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

My October Stereogum column is about Halsey's "The Great Impersonator." I am posting this today because it went up today.

Like many reviewers, I find the record compelling, but I knew after listening that it would likely draw bad-faith dismissal.

https://t.co/FYT8P82W8u

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

logging onto this excellent social media platform to share ~some personal news~ https://t.co/Z7OJ6TQqFC

[Stereogum @stereogum]

With "Padam Padam," @kylieminogue had her biggest hit in years. New album 'Tension' keeps the party going.

Read all about it in the first installment of @katstasaph's new monthly pop column: https://t.co/oFofJMr09g

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

bumping, as they say, for the afternoon crowd

https://t.co/siobzBDwAU

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

coming out of twitter retirement to do the thing el*n doesn't want anyone to do and plug my stuff elsewhere -- namely, that I have a newsletter now! expect column fragments, new music reviews, old music reviews, and more: https://t.co/yjR4hOdnKm

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

here's what's in the first edition:
- the zoomer Enigma revival
- some music on cappuccinos and introspection
- a 2023 banger
- more?

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

coming out of twitter retirement to do the thing el*n doesn't want anyone to do and plug my stuff elsewhere -- namely, that I have a newsletter now! expect column fragments, new music reviews, old music reviews, and more: https://t.co/yjR4hOdnKm

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

wrote about bjork for stereogum https://t.co/SEaqkqYZXW

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

and wrote about Fiona Apple's When the Pawn for this, in a diabolical plot concocted in my teens to further the women's agenda or whatever by loving an amazing album
https://t.co/7FKW1G8HcF

[Pitchfork @pitchfork]

Presenting the best albums of the 1990s

See our list of the 150 best albums of the decade → https://t.co/v5qnvs5lBZ #p4k90s

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

wrote about Liz Phair and Massive Attack for this, my old winamp playlists are vindicated https://t.co/8pg92AVcjJ

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

@ismathers @LiamWalds I picked it up from Scott I think!

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

There were some genres -- wildly popular ones -- we consistently fell short on covering; we made an effort, but effort is a limited resource. We shifted from being UK-centric to US-centric; songs inevitably fell through the cracks. Some of them were probably amazing.

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

Was the site perfect? No. Having a lot of blurbs means you're probably going to have some regrettable blurbs; I've contributed my share. Like the rest of music writing, it slowly got less contrarian over time (though that has more to do with who kept writing and who stepped away)

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

@DPunctum "mp3 blog" was shorter, there's only so much I can mention in 280 characters

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

this, too, was one of my favorite parts. one of our highest-rated songs ever (and a perfect pop song in general), Sofi de la Torre's "Vermillion," was something I found trawling through new Vevo videos https://t.co/cvWGxaXyRz

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

Perhaps something will come along like it. Perhaps we could reboot in the future (super open to that, subtle hint subtle hint). Perhaps some music publication will adopt its format (it's happened before, multiple times actually). We had something great. Maybe we'll have it again.

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

I haven't written anything about the @SinglesJukebox closing until now. I'm too close to it. It's going to take a while to feel anything about the situation but deep regret. Nevertheless, here is my attempt at a eulogy. (thread)

[katherine st asaph @katstasaph]

The whole thing is wrapped up in a lot of complicated and ambivalent feelings about the last decade and the shell of itself that music writing has become. But it was a great thing that existed, and music writing is lesser for its being gone. I will miss it a lot.