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In my relentless search for contemporary music I might want to listen to more than once (which excludes most of it, but always did) I occasionally stumble over something that recombines the familiar (which is what music does) into a pattern that unexpectedly taps the fun buttons.
I was hooked into this almost unpronounceable band by the unusually beautiful cover art. When a band recognises the importance of presentation and avoids the clichéd and inept imagery of "here's me with my guitar/hat/hair/self loathing", it's likely they put care and craft into their music, too. And it gives nothing away about the music other than perhaps literacy and a respect for formality. Maybe it's an exquisite song cycle by an Appalachian dulcimer consort, informed by loss and a sense of history? Is it fuck.
Research has revealed a common problem with genre definition, although goth/symphonic/experimental metal seems to be the general ball park, none of which would win air time on Uncle Farq's Bag O' Happy Tunes radio show (weeknights on most of these same radio stations).
It's demanding, but there's a mind-blistering amount of invention and style-shifting that makes it compelling and rewarding. Further description is a waste of time. Exceptional music. And, they're French.
This post mooted by Ents.
This is not a political poll, though it looks like it. Who do you think's going to win the Premenstrual Erection? Given that: nobody knows/too close to call - take a wild guess. One name. No arguments pro or contra. Not who you'd like to win, or general Deep Thorts about the electoral process. Restrict yourself to guesswork, choose one, Trump or Harris. In a few days we'll see if the IoF© Poll Service is spookily accurate or hoplessly adrift.
ReplyDeleteBut leave politics out of it, okay? Thank you!
Leaving politics out allows the cretins, morons and lunatics the opportunity to assume power. Hence Trump and all the other cancerous bastards. Consider this - the word trump is an English euphemism for a fart. May his eye holes turn to arse holes and the shit run down his face.
DeleteMan from Mordor, him ride many mile to speak truth.
DeleteHarris! (not Kamela, Richard).
ReplyDeleteI think the poll has been open long enough for us to obtain a representative sample! Thanks to all who voted - it only remains now for us to wait and see if th' 4/5g© have their collective finger on the pulse of the zeitgeit. I'm hoping that we become a bellwether site for collective opinion, and at the next election the mainstream media will watch us very closely.
DeleteOh!! Am I too late to vote?? Damn!! Anyway no real idea!!
ReplyDeleteIf only the election campaign cycle was completed as quickly as your poll.
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I'm pretty sure if I'd heard this back in, say, February of 1970, I'd have been blown away, and carried the album under my arm on the bus so everyone could see how hip I was. I may even have copied the band's logo onto my Army Surplus jacket in Biro. I guess putting it up on my blogue is today's equivalent.
Who will win the American duopoly? Well it won't be the American people. However, China Russia, Iran, North Korea and a few others will all probably do Ok out of it whoever wins and likely the American lega
ReplyDelete(before my Browser was so rudely interrupted ).... and likely the American legal profession from all the law suits raised in the aftermath of the result regarding the legality of those results in a number of states
ReplyDeletePost Script And Chances Are the group with the biggest support of them all will be those belonging to the stay at home group (aka the none of the above party) who pretty much have had the plurality, if not the majority, at just about every one of these elections since WWII
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Elwood, I actually saw P Paulsen live. He stole the jacket from a heckler. Great move.
DeleteWhen you said this was goth/symphonic/experimental metal, I didn’t believe you - I think because of the lovely cover art. Anyway in future I shall be more trusting.
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