https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Eb3qBXsW1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qq3AysIgoY

Don't think words could describe how much I love that band. Probably up there next to sonic youth as life changing bands for me.

If there isn't a thread about it, we should start one. A certain band from the '80s (not SY) absolutely "destroyed my life" (as John Fahey said about bluegrass music) and I am what I am today because of them... Well, not quite; it was more of a convergence, but you know what I mean. :)

oofty oofty.....doesn't make sense how they're still this good at putting sounds together so late in the game, nor how they can make such rigid sounds feel so organic/free-forming. stunning.

May I ask how you got the early access?

They had a listening stream on their website a few days ago. Full points for waking up at 7am to get it.

Talk about timing - this was posted to Discogs' blog yesterday:

How Birmingham Shaped Black Sabbath and Heavy Metal

"Birmingham / So much to answer for..." Wait, no, that's Manchester.

The original tape commands big bucks online, but if you're cool with the official "audiobook" (m4b file, very easily convertible to a different digital format if need be), go to https://www.simonandschuster.net/boo.../9781442390768 (for five bucks, you're stealing it out the door as far as I'm concerned, and no, I do not work for Simon & Schuster). This is one of the coolest, most twisted, funniest, most frightening, and just plain BEST things ever.

thank god for insomnia

it's also out for preorder digis on the ae bleepstore, although I think if you buy now you still get the DLs

Thanks. Thinking of treating myself to it some time soon.

two main things i got myself into recently

also this


and that

Meh. The sad thing is: There are some legitimately sublime melodic elements to this album that unfortunately never manage to rise above their overblown adult contemporary framework. This album is kitsch-laden, overly exuberant in its wailing romanticism and most of all, overproduced. Too much poppyfication of concepts that would've made for fine Folk songs if stripped down a good bit.

This is my palette-cleanser and my catharsis. Lovely.

Both are from the Corona Borealis Longplay Singles Series

Have you listened to the albums he made with Kath Bloom in the first half of the '80s? That's some of the most brutal music I can think of. Kath's voice doesn't suggest heartbreak, it is heartbreak; lyrically there's not exactly much in the way of metaphors, as for the most part things are directly laid out; and Connors' role is mainly to provide trebly acoustic stabs. Described like that it sounds like a recipe for awful overemo shit, I know, but it most certainly isn't - it's pure human feelings set to wax, and it can freakin' hurt. Not for everyday listening, yes for a beautiful/painful experience.

https://kathbloomlorenconnors.bandcamp.com/

Not necessarily the adjective I was going for, come to think of it (makes it sound like an Einstürzende Neubauten record or something). Let's go with... "devastating".