Re: OPN, āSameā off the new record is leaning hard into Tears For Fears and itās very decent
fuk yesss
a very happy 25th birthday
Just found out one of my favorite bands put out a new album months ago. Hadnāt heard a thing about it:
Van Der Graaf Generator is the secret missing link between prog and punk ā Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols once claimed their singer as a major influence. And this song makes it very clear why. This vocal performance is incredible to me. Itās raw, personal, and intense, but in equal measure itās theatric, bombastic, and operatic. The song starts out with subdued jazz drumming, but ratchets up so slowly and continuously, like the feeling of tonguing a loose baby tooth before it finally falls out. It reaches a sublime climax once, but it was a fakeout, it ratchets even further to a second climax, but even that was only preparation for the third, final wild explosion, the most intense scream Iāve ever heard in music. A scream so extreme that the saxophone is compelled to jump in and echo it as it dies away. The whole song is the sound of panicked scrambling for safety in a barren warzone and coming up empty.
i found the single for this at the record store for $2. i almost asked if i could pay more for it because itās worth more than that idc about the condition
Tonightās YouTube discovery. Looks like they been around a few years!
iām not much into minimal techno but god i love pantha du princeās abuse of bell sounds
Getting into old school death metal this year was the right call I think
this brought up a memory Iād completely forgotten:
I was obsessed with the album 99 Cents by Chicks on Speed, listened to it about 50 times maybe 6 years ago. Itās not evenā¦that good? But I fucking love it. Now I have to find it again.
EDIT: I remember how I found them now, was researching Peaches and found āWe Donāt Play Guitars,ā which is pretty good. Now Iām listening to 99 cents again and uh yeah i fucking love this.
EDIT: oh no actually this is better than good it definitely rules
Iād actually intended to post the song below. But when I went looking for a video version to post, the above became my song of the moment. As it has been many times before.
