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i've only heard transactional dharma of roj once, remember seeing the cover art before it came out and being so excited, i plan on buying it along with witch cults and a ghost box t shirt. i swore off buying records due to funds but in this case i feel the quality of this work merits cash since i have a bit of it. i read a positive review of witch cults which called the be colony 60's pop, and this really annoyed me because it's just entirely missing the point and a false way of describing the music. witch cults is i think the most popular hauntological album so far, if you discount burial of course, which i only do because most people don't see him as hauntological. what was so pathetic about hauntology and h-pop was the reaction of cynical journalists who would namedrop the genres in order to prove they had heard them but in a 'this is the latest trend but of course i'm too much of a nihilistic jaded cool guy to fall for it' kind of way. so they would say something like 'part of the whole hauntology craze that all the kids are down with now' in a detached sarcastic way, and so in a way hauntology did become a trend, despite the people talking about it only being journalists who quite probably hadn't a clue what it actually was supposed to be about. they were bending over backwards in order to dismiss it as the latest hot trend precisely because this would make them look as tho they were totally privy to and beyond the latest coolest thing in music. i mean keenan's hpop article made some tenuous links and of course it tied in nicely with his volcanic tongue shop selling the latest h-pop wares but the content and ideas of the article and the concept of h-pop is actually fascinating. it's the whole post everything cynical nihilistic attitude that hold's back art and music. Hauntological music and hpop (or if you won't accept the terms the bands that people relate to these genre concepts) have been some of the weirdest and most original of the decade.
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