The Run Out Grooves
Mitchell StirlingSometimes, the last song says everything. Essays on the greatest (and not so great) album closers. How they’re made, what they mean, and why endings stick.
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You walk up to her, ask her to dance
Many of the closers we have looked at in this newsletter withdraw. It is the default reaction of a closing track. One of the findings from my book I’m working on is about the ebb and flow of this tendency over the decades and the technologi...
The Night Shift
I am breaking my usual one-post-per-song rule here. For the book, I have been working on cluster essays: pieces that examine an artist, a year, a genre, or a recurring idea across several closing tracks. The paid preview on Gumroad contains...
A paid preview of The Run Out Grooves - the book
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For nearly five years now, I’ve been writing this Substack about album closing tracks. Over that time, it’s grown from a collection of hundreds of essays into a book. A book that uses Daniel Kahneman’s peak-end...
Dead shopping malls
For most of its runtime, The Suburbs sounds like Bruce Springsteen grew up in Montreal and has never quite forgiven someone for it. Win Butler spends sixteen tracks mentally driving through his childhood in the Woodlands, Texas, chronicling...
Lost forever in a happy crowd
The Cure’s lead singer, Robert Smith, was raised Catholic, and by the end of the 1980s, he stopped believing. There are interviews1 that confirm this verbatim, but I don’t think you needed to have waited that long to notice. He was twenty-o...
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