Footings - Annihilation

Amenra - acoustic live set for the 2021 Grauzone festival

acoustic slowcore doom metal, from Belgium
including Portishead and Tim Buckley covers

OH COME ON THAT CAN'T BE A THING. Ahem.

having a bit of a blonde redhead retrospective today.

and so while reading about what they've doing lately i found out that a chunk of an old song had become "a savage new meme" :D (not so new anymore but eh)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kgy...avage-new-meme

i've heard that on rick and morty but had no idea about the aftermath. very funny.

Meara O'Reilly - Hockets For Two Voices. Amazing! Recommended if you like: awesome shit! Lee praised it to the top of Mount Olympus last year - was it mentioned here? I searched for it and came up with squat, but given that the board is half-broken...

The title track is said to be about the invasion of Aghanistan... the previous one, that is, by the USSR. Another explanation is that it's a Dog Day Afternoon-like hostage situation, with the protagonist literally shooting out the lights of the building so he can't be seen from the outside. Could be both. What a song, what a masterful album. And on the cover of an LP plagued by, among other light matters, a marriage going to hell, back-stabbing prostitutes, walls of death, a woman "lying in a pool of herself" after she jumped-or-was-pushed-depends-on-who-you-ask, and an overwhelming, crippling restlessness —but hey, "only the pain [keeps] you sane and gives you a mind to travel on" so "don't worry, 'cause under the ocean, at the bottom of the sea, you can't hear the storm, it's as peaceful as can be" (!)— RT appears smiling, because of course he is. It's not necessarily ironic; there is, after all, a kind of life-affirming force among all this horror. In any case, let that be a lesson to mooks worldwide and their Dark Serious Issue Poses on the covers of their boring-ass records.

Incidentally, "Shoot Out The Lights" was splendidly covered by Thompson fanatic Bob Mould on his See A Little Light EP:

Whilst making burgers yesterday. This and More Songs About Buildings And Food have sort of become my go-to soundtrack for cooking sessions.

I still have that textured album jacket (and the spooky inner sleeve). No cooking sessions for me, though - can't do anything while a record is on...

LOW - HEY WHAT.
Baby Keem - The Melodic Blue
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might be Introvert
Joy Orbison - still slipping vol. 1

"War On War". "Jesus, etc". "Ashes Of American Flags". The album came out in 2002, but all those songs were ready before 9/11. Don't ask me how Jeff did it.

And then...

hah, i've been chilling at night to that one a lot lately

God's Pee Solo

On Youtube, been listening to this track among others from FRIOLENTO

BICHOTA - Friolento
https://youtu.be/gULONZzTPS8


LOVE IT

the new Mono album is pretty good, but I still love their older work much more so I listened to this one again:





Bought new headphones, the Marshall Monitor II ANC, so I'm relistening my fav albums with it. It has good sound, I do think it lacks a bit of punch. Must try out some more loud music, so later today I'll listen to some BEHEMOTH, the God's Pee song, not the band ...

Do you look anything like this when you put them on?



(^ Actual image used to sell the Marshall Monitor II A.N.C. headphones.)

Iron Fucking Maiden - Senjutsu.

Iron Fucking Maiden - Senjutsu.

the violin is at times ear-splitting, but it's good...