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[Darkness_Fish]

Not exactly the cheeriest stuff, but you can't argue with the honesty of this second collection of songs written in the immediate aftermath of his wife's death.

[clive gash]

His version of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is devastating.

[Darkness_Fish]

Every version of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is devastating.

[BARON CORNY DOG]

POLYGON WINDOW Surfing On Sine Waves

Been a long time!

[fange]

Peter Tosh - Honorary Citizen

Disc 1

[joels344]

Not exactly the cheeriest stuff, but you can't argue with the honesty of this second collection of songs written in the immediate aftermath of his wife's death.

That’s so far the best I’ve heard from Mount Eerie. I’ve liked other albums, but this is Phil Elverum at his most honest and emotional.

[Darkness_Fish]

Not exactly the cheeriest stuff, but you can't argue with the honesty of this second collection of songs written in the immediate aftermath of his wife's death.

That’s so far the best I’ve heard from Mount Eerie. I’ve liked other albums, but this is Phil Elverum at his most honest and emotional.

The only thing I've ever liked from them before was Eleven Old Songs, which Phil describes as a half-jokey release, but there's something about the cheapness of the synth sound and Phil's conversational style that appeals. However, I went straight from Now Only, to A Crow Looked at me, and that was even more emotionally devastating. I mean, perhaps I'm particularly susceptible to this kind of thing since my dad passed away a couple of months ago, but this...

"And I bring you up repeatedly, uninvited to
Do the people around me want to keep hearing about my dead wife?
Or does the room go silent when I mention you?
Shining alive, I live with your absence
And it's been two months since you died
I'll speak to your absence and carry our stories around my whole life
But when I'm in public, I don't know what's that look in their eyes
I now wield the power to transform a grocery store aisle into a canyon of pity and confusion
And mutual aching to leave"

Mundane, detailed, properly raw. And then this...

"A week after you died a package with your name on it came and inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret and I collapsed there on the front steps.
I wailed"

I was in bits. Still am.

[fange]

[clive gash]

Magnifique.

[naughty boy]

Always the best titles.

[joels344]

This is still one of the greatest post-punk albums I’ve ever heard. Best listened to at night on a long drive. I love the rhythmic energy, tribal drumming, flawless vocals, and the guitar playing here is probably unmatched within the genre (bold statement, I know).

[Darkness_Fish]

Back to me roots.

[Darkness_Fish]

This is still one of the greatest post-punk albums I’ve ever heard. Best listened to at night on a long drive. I love the rhythmic energy, tribal drumming, flawless vocals, and the guitar playing here is probably unmatched within the genre (bold statement, I know).

It's ok, but I doubt it'd make my top 100 post-punk albums. And give me Daniel Ash's guitar playing, any day.

[pcqgod]

[joels344]

This is still one of the greatest post-punk albums I’ve ever heard. Best listened to at night on a long drive. I love the rhythmic energy, tribal drumming, flawless vocals, and the guitar playing here is probably unmatched within the genre (bold statement, I know).

It's ok, but I doubt it'd make my top 100 post-punk albums. And give me Daniel Ash's guitar playing, any day.

Now, I didn’t say the album as a whole was better than In the Flat Field, but I’d still place it in my top 10 of the genre.

[Darkness_Fish]

[joels344]

This is a brilliant Swans album. It’s not on the level of The Great Annihilator or White Light From the Mouth of Infinity, but it’s an earlier Swans that deserves more attention and has in fact greatly grown on me over the years.

[Darkness_Fish]

This is a brilliant Swans album. It’s not on the level of The Great Annihilator or White Light From the Mouth of Infinity, but it’s an earlier Swans that deserves more attention and has in fact greatly grown on me over the years.

I think for a while, before modernity came and turned Swans into a loud prog band, Children of God was generally regarded as their magnum opus. I prefer both albums you mentioned, but it's not that far behind. "Blackmail" alone is a contender for best track they ever recorded.

[BARON CORNY DOG]

CODEINE Frigid Stars


Oh, how we laughed!

[driftin]

80 minutes of murky industrial drones suddenly shifting into raw and aggressive instrumental jungle. My new favourite thing.