The 15 year-old version of Karina is jumping up and down at the news that Brad Laner of Medicine is composing the score for Beautiful Noise. I swear I’ve written about this film before, but I can’t find a previous post on Spout about it, so here’s the rundown: directed by Eric Green, Noise is a documentary about shoegaze, the British flash-in-the-pan trend that, or a couple of years in the late 80s, sort of united stoney, droney bands like My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Lush and Jesus and Mary Chain, before a press backlash made uttering the very name of the trend anathema.
(If that syndrome sounds familiar, check out the Wikipedia sections on both the shoegaze movement and its backlash, which attribute the genre’s collapse to a single Melody Maker story which referred to the genre as “The Scene Which Celebrates Itself.” After that story, shoegazers “became perceived by critics as over-privileged, self-indulgent and middle-class.” Ho-hum.)
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