LIstening again, it is a great album. Lot of Joy Division in there but with a kind of spectacular supersaturated sound that is much less constrained and inhibited. Joy Division if they grew up in Texas rather than Manchester.
I've always assumed that the sound they achieved was semi-accidental, circumstantial. But there really is nothing else even close it to it. It's genuinely alien - the guitars sound like a colony of weeping pterodacytls.
Robert Wyatt
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*A tribute to Robert Wyatt, written and recorded for remote participation
in a 2025 birthday celebration for the Great Man, organized by Sukhdev
Sandhu ...
A Wombat’s Anus
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So I was feeling like it was time to read a *Margaret Atwood* and I
fancied *Oryx and Crake,* having been intrigued by a chapter on it in *Mark
Fisher*’...
Of Instagrammatology
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Had Instagram for ages and ages but never got into looking at it regularly
until quite recently.... the algorithm quickly learned to serve me up
dance m...
Musicophilia
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"What trifles constitute happiness! The sound of a bagpipe. Without music
life would be a mistake. The German imagines even God as a songster."
"I would ...
faves of the 2010s
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(Tracks not full lengths)
Ke$ha – “We R Who We R”
Ke$ha - “Backstabber”
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, "Round and Round"
Rangers – “Golden Triangles”...
Visual Music - a lecture, by me
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*Visual Music - a talk at the Tate Modern, July 27 2018*
*Presented by 4:3 as part of the Uniqlo Tate Late series*
There is a subset of experimental ani...
angel delights
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https://rada-ve.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-rings-songs
*Go on* - listen to that gorgeous bubble bath of synthtronica!
Another vintage release, with a vi...
Reality Bath should be mandatory listening really. The most expansive sound I suspect has ever been recorded.
ReplyDeleteWow that is quite an accolade.
DeleteI did really like it then - haven't played it in a while though.
LIstening again, it is a great album. Lot of Joy Division in there but with a kind of spectacular supersaturated sound that is much less constrained and inhibited. Joy Division if they grew up in Texas rather than Manchester.
DeleteI've always assumed that the sound they achieved was semi-accidental, circumstantial. But there really is nothing else even close it to it. It's genuinely alien - the guitars sound like a colony of weeping pterodacytls.
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