Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words
“After being diagnosed with a near crippling mental disease, Sweden’s Thomas Ekelund sought sanctuary in sound but recoiled from what he created. Ekelund stares into the shadow sounds that invade our lives and grind the spaces between us and sees his fractured reflection staring back. With his splintered mind as a guide, Ekelund plumbs the depths of noisy maelstroms and explores the currents of isolation and madness, conjuring emotive landscapes that draw blood as often as they heal.
Yet, the psychic violence of Ekelund’s compositions cannot erase the sympathetic response they evoke. Through sonic alchemy, Ekelund transmutes buzzing drones, ominous atmospheres and dirge-like melodies into spaces where we can seek solace. For it is through these songs that we, like Ekelund, can find joy through pain, calm through anger, comfort through isolation, and peace through madness.”
This week’s Album of the Week was chosen by Alex Ford.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity
Nick Cave’s finest hour, one of the best albums of the 1980s and an absolutely engaging record, FHTE stands as one of the most emotionally raw and bleak pieces of musical work ever recorded. Combining Cave’s bleak, often humorous, always frightening lyrics with the stellar backing band of the Bad Seeds, who are consistently able conjure up the moral apocalypse being preached by Cave. Twisting delta blues into an almost unrecognizable state, the lengthy pieces on this album rank amongst the most disturbing and dark in recorded history. Painting a vivid and horrifying vision of America through the language of it’s most accomplished and eternal musical form. Each piece creating another part of Cave’s personal diary of despair and horror. Absolutely essential, one of the only albums I’d give a 10/10 to and one of my favorite records ever made. You simply need this in your life. (This version contains the original vinyl track listings as the three added to the CD reissue don’t really add anything to it except break up the flow mid-way through the album, you’re welcome to listen to them but I’d recommend against it within the context of the album, they’re great when taken on their own)
This week’s Album of the Week was chosen by Callum Lowes.
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
“The Knife’s New Album, its really good. I loved Silent SHout, but this new album is so colorful. the sounds and timbres are a lot bolder then the cool and subdued synths of silent shout. Fever Ray’s unique vocals are here in full force, all sorts of pitch shifting and multi-tracking. Along with some of the trademark Knife sounds there are some wold music influenced rhythms and live drums, along with some more distorted and harsher textures too. Another change is some of the monstrous track lengths. I’m Loving this!”
This week’s Album of the Week was chosen by Sean Nuelle.
Kvelertak - Meir
“Kvelertak’s recently released sophomore album (literally meaning ‘more’) does exactly what it sets out to do and gives you even more of their super buzzword mixture of black metal and hardcore punk. Proper BUZZIN’ music. ‘Av a can lads alryt”
This week’s Album of the Week was chosen by Aaron Sheehan.
JAKAZiD - Tank Engine Banger
JAKAZiD (Josh McInnes) is a UK based DJ whose work mostly features 90’s rave beats and/or samples Japanese music/anime.
Tank Engine Banger is one of his more recent remixes, which samples the theme of popular children’s TV show Thomas the Tank Engine, remixed with a “Sick Drop”, followed by a “Bangin’” beat.
This track does not show how great any of his other shit is though, go check out his mixes on his soundcloud linked below and discover how neat JAKAZiD is for yourself.
This week’s Album of the Week was chosen by Zoë Harley.
Daughter - If You Leave
The first studio effort by English folk band, Daughter. Emotive, bold, and unique, Elena Tonra displays her maturity as a songwriter in this impressive debut. Less of a statement of intent, these songs are more a snapshot of a year in Daughter’s short life. Lyrically, Elena plumbs the depths of her psyche to reveal her innermost thoughts, finding catharsis in expounding those internal demons. There may be little light relief here, but the personal themes have universal appeal; tales of doubt, insecurity, fear, anger and loneliness all take centre stage. Musically, Daughter balance an intricate interplay between vocal, guitar and rhythm section. Elena’s vocals are fractured, often delivering savage words with a smoke-tinged whisper. Igor wrestles his guitar to build up a stark and brutal landscape, colliding with Elena’s more structured rhythm guitar. All are punctuated by the jolts of Remi’s minimalist drums.
This week’s Album of the Week was chosen by Belal Aria.
![No Joy - Wait to Pleasure [2013]“cool album by some cool grrls just listened to it once and thought it was good as heck and worth sharing, probably my AOTY so far idk”This week’s Album of the Week was chosen by Ryan Hofmann.
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