In 2001, the little-known loopy Liverpudlians were extracting accessible tunes out of abstract environments (and vice versa); plus, Sigur Rós scores a bonus track with Thom Yorke.
As the Reagan era began to grind on, photographer Sylvia Plachy prowled the subways, and music critic Tom Smucker admitted, “I like Christmas music. I like the schlock and I like the religion. I like sentimental innocence and I like trancing out on the same standards sung and resung.”
Out for a Thanksgiving week jaunt of the clubs and concert halls, the Voice's Riffs reporter experienced not just Jimi Hendrix, but the Jefferson Airplane, Slim Harpo, and some “profoundly witty, imaginative Scottish folk music for the year 2001.”
