[music] v/a - authorized lacunae mp3s (lacunae.com)

Douglas Wolk has been posting mp3s to his blog every day or two -- all out-of-print singles from the past 20 years of underground music, and all by permission of the artists involved. At first it leaned toward the noisy and spacy (maybe those bands just answered their email faster) but the past few weeks' worth, still available on the front page, brought back my memories of being a 90s indiepopster while reintroducing me to two songwriters I'd heard but never before, you know, liked. (Those are Honeybunch and Andrew Beaujon -- both mp3s recommended.)

It all feels very unassimilated; these songs don't really match the caricatures of indiepop which its critics pushed at the time, nor the positive caricatures popular now in the age of Belle & Sebastian.

I've listened to that Andrew Beaujon song twice more while writing this and it's amazing how the guitar soloing is both wimpy and huge.