0.3.2 - My name // is whatever you decide
Dashboard! I get it, naming things is hard. Names are important, they have power and weight and meaning. You can stop people mid-flow talking about an idea or a film or a character or a song when you say "OK, but what's it called?", and the shutters go down behind their eyes/the creative process freezes in place like it was encased in ice. And that's just one person. Now imagine you need to find a name that two, or three, or five, or eight, (or thirty nine if you are The Polyphonic Spree) people all agree is good and appropriate and most of all, cool and memorable. Why then does the eponymous / self-titled album irritate me the way that it does? Is it worse when it's the first album in a band's catalogue, or if it comes several releases into a discography? Is there ever a good reason to release a self-titled album? These are all questions I've spent the day thinking about while listening to a selection of self-titled albums, and whi...