here's what i listened to today, the last day of 2024:
=> they are gutting a body of water - S [shoegaze]
=> Cicada - Wicked Dream [hardcore punk]
=> Pneuma Hagion - From Beyond [death metal]
=> Reigns - Dead Centre [post-rock/electronic]
=> MoMA Ready - BODY 24 [house/techno]
australians know there's this all-night tv music program called rage that runs on friday & saturday nights, and as a kid i would often fall asleep on the couch watching music videos. i bring this up as this they are gutting a body of water album reminds me of indie music playing as i hazily drifted off or woke up on some of those 90s weekends. nostalgic but with a fresh weirdness, i dig it.
a dose of sickening breakneck with gross, rasping vocals, Cicada's Wicked Dream is definitely punk but it also feels to me a little bit death metal in spirit. i enjoyed it a lot. for such a bad time it's a good time, if you know what i mean.
feeling personally targeted by the William Blake cover art and cosmic horror theme of From Beyond. seems like a lot of bands using this theme lean into fancy spaced-out prog but not Pneuma Hagion! it's good ol' downtuned death pummeling your ears, without getting overly muddy. i like the concept of the album more than the music but it was still a fun listen.
Dead Centre is a soundtrack for a horror novel by Tim Farthing. i only have the blurb to go off but Pt. 1 captures the shopping mall setting, a bottle-popping bender, and subsequent wooziness, while Pt. 2 is a little creepier in tone, alternating between unsettling garbled mouth sounds and post-rock noodlings. some of the samples took me out a bit with cheesiness, maybe the context of the book would help with that, idk. ultimately i am more interested in reading this book than revisiting the album.
electronic artist MoMA Ready has generously collected a large amount of his tracks for BODY 24. i like this album a lot, from the harsher beats & siren samples of Slip, to the warm synth throbs of Tokyo 24 and Glow, to the crystalline shimmers of 105 Down The BQE. fitting for today to wrap up with dance music too :)
i hope you & yours have a safe & sound new years everything.
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