Music Arcades: Hefner: Boxing Hefner

I'm not sure that what I said about indie the day before yesterday applies to Hefner. That could mean one of two things. What I said is bollocks. Or Hefner aren't really indie.

It would be playing with semantics to pretend Hefner weren't indie because they ooze indie values and aesthetics from every pore of their being. Yet they get desribed in profiles as "urban folk". And I guess I was talking about angst-indie, rather than wry-indie. Wry indie is more about the shrewdly observed turn of phrase than the texture of the guitar sound. Think Jonathan Richman and Ballboy rather than My Bloody Valentine and Loop…

…Let me stop digging before this hole gets any deeper, because that distinction doesn't hold up. Bollocks. I think the reason I'm floundering about is that I think Darren Hayman is a smart cookie. He's engaging in his writing — see this recent blog post for example — and in person. I want to like his stuff, because I think it would reflect well on me if I did.

Somehow I enjoy it more in small doses — an EP or a radio play of an old Peel Session track — than on a longplayer compilation.