Thankfully, it was a light week for me at Spectrum Culture, somewhat by design. For instance, I entirely opted out of picking a film for this week, so the only full-length piece I had was for one of the music releases that’s been sitting in my iTunes for ages. I wrote on the debut release from the Brooklyn band Desert Stars. The writing process exists in my memory as only static, so I hope the review is at least reasonably well written.

I also expelled a few words in service of lauding R.E.M. in the second entry in our countdown of the finest “greatest hits” albums in history. It was nice to write about the little ol’ band from Athen, Georgia, even if I’ve already done it there, more effectively.