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New York based guitar rock band Telescreens have never released an album under an hour, but their third LP, <\/span>Why The Lights Flicker<\/span><\/i>, beats their own record, clocking in at ninety-seven minutes. Now, I wouldn\u2019t call myself a fan of Telescreens specifically by any means, but I am a fan of shreddy, grimy, night-out-in-New-York-City guitar rock. I\u2019ll allow it to be derivative if it whips, and a handful of Telescreens songs do, in fact, whip. But this is not the kind of band that I ever find myself craving an hour-plus of music from. Perhaps I was naive to think that the world of indie rock still valued the album format and was immune to the stream-juicing strategy of stuffing your LPs with as many songs as possible, going for quantity over quality. I listened to Telescreens\u2019s latest data dump, and in lieu of a traditional album review, I made a list of thirty things one could do in the 97 minutes it\u2019d take to listen to <\/span>Why The Lights Flicker<\/span><\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\n 1)<\/strong> Watch the 2023 action thriller film <\/span>97 Minutes<\/span><\/i> starring Alec Baldwin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and MyAnna Buring<\/span><\/p>\n 2)<\/strong> Go to two therapy sessions<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3)<\/strong> Listen to Nirvana\u2019s studio album 4)<\/strong> Watch every deleted scene from <\/span>Nirvanna the Band the Show<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n 5)<\/strong> Meditate for long enough to reach Nirvana, maybe<\/span><\/p>\n 6)<\/strong> Listen to the <\/span>new YHWH Nailgun album<\/span><\/a> eight times<\/span><\/p>\n 7) <\/strong>Go to a three-band bill hardcore show (maybe <\/span>four,<\/span><\/i> if they all keep it really short and sweet)<\/span><\/p>\n 8)<\/strong> Listen to two and half of the three new Drake albums\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 9)<\/strong> Watch an episode of <\/span>Saturday Night Live<\/span><\/i>, plus a cut-for-time sketch or two\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 10)<\/strong> Take a bubble bath<\/span><\/p>\n 11)<\/strong> Listen to about \u2153 of a Bandsplain episode<\/span><\/p>\n 12)<\/strong> Watch <\/span>Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n 13)<\/strong> Take the Metro North from Grand Central to Beacon, New York (which <\/span>Paste<\/span><\/i> associate editor Casey Epstein-Gross and I did when we <\/span>attended Black Country, New Road\u2019s show<\/span><\/a> at Storm King last weekend)<\/span><\/p>\n 14)<\/strong> Listen to Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s <\/span>Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/span><\/i><\/a> 2.5 times<\/span><\/p>\n 15)<\/strong> Cook this delicious-looking breakfast casserole<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n 16)<\/strong> Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge three times<\/span><\/p>\n 17)<\/strong> Play a game of Monopoly<\/span><\/p>\n 18)<\/strong> Listen to Pinkpantheress\u2019s remix album <\/span>Fancy Some More?<\/span><\/i> followed by the Four Tet remix of \u201cIllegal\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 19)<\/strong> Watch <\/span>WALL-E<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n 20)<\/strong> Go to the dentist for a deep clean and a couple fillings<\/span><\/p>\n 21)<\/strong> Listen to the first five Joyce Manor albums<\/span><\/p>\n 22)<\/strong> Watch <\/span>these<\/span><\/a> two<\/span><\/a> Vine compilations<\/span><\/p>\n 23)<\/strong> Read an Annie Ernaux novella<\/span><\/p>\n 24)<\/strong> Listen to Tierra Whack\u2019s <\/span>Whack World <\/span><\/i>six times, plus two or three of the standalone singles that followed\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 25)<\/strong> Watch half a season of <\/span>Derry Girls<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n 26)<\/strong> Wash and dry a load of laundry<\/span><\/p>\n 27)<\/strong> Listen to Telescreens\u2019 best song, \u201cPhone Booth,\u201d thirty-two times<\/span><\/p>\n 28)<\/strong> Listen to LCD Soundsystem\u2019s <\/span>This Is Happening<\/span><\/i> (which contains \u201cAll I Want,\u201d the song interpolated on the aforementioned \u201cPhone Booth\u201d) and then listen to the two Tom Sharkett edits of \u201cHome\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 29)<\/strong> Listen to the first two Strokes albums and think about how if you\u2019re gonna be a Strokes ripoff band, you should keep your records to forty minutes tops (and even that is pushing it)<\/span><\/p>\n 30)<\/strong> Read the Penguin Classics edition of Ovid\u2019s <\/span>Fall of Icarus<\/span><\/i> to yourself myself of the last time someone showed such an outrageous degree of hubris<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pastemagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New York based guitar rock band Telescreens have never released an album under an hour, but their third LP, Why The Lights Flicker, beats their own record, clocking in at ninety-seven minutes. 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