by Quillon on Fri, Aug 6, 2021
Is that smoke I see over there ?
This was one of my first introductions to hip hop at around 8-9 years old. This, together with NWA, Tupac, and Snoop among others, was the coolest music I had heard, and I immediately had to get some baggy pants and way oversized t-shirts. I’m sure some of those clothes would still look big on me now in my 30s… Out of all hip hop I listened to, Cypress Hill always stood out.
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by Tarbeaux on Mon, Aug 2, 2021
"Behind a burning red fog"
You’re sitting by the doorway, looking at the land surrounding you. All is in decay. The crops are dying under the burning sun, everything is dry and desolate. But you see them coming, dark clouds looming at the horizon. They grow, swelling again and again, darkening the sky. Lightning strikes and rain is released on this desolate wasteland. You welcome the storm, regenerational for the bodies and the soil. Then it slowly stops and everything seems good for a while.
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by Scuttlegoat on Wed, Jul 28, 2021
20 years after, Scuttlegoat goes back on a mythic grind album
Roger Ebert, in his review of “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” mentions a divided film festival audience. Some argued that the violence in it is “justified because of its uncompromising honesty in a world where most horror films cheapen death by trivializing it”. Or rather, a divide between “those who felt the film did its job brilliantly, and those who felt its job should not have been done at all”.
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by Aker on Mon, Jul 26, 2021
Abstract but grounded.
My perception of Sparklehorse’s third album It’s a Wonderful Life has beautifully warped since my first listen some ten years ago. Picture a skinny, floppy-fringed Aker sitting on a school bus through a nondescript post-industrial British city listening to an awkward mix of Mastodon, Elliott Smith, Deftones, The Smashing Pumpkins, Enslaved, Neil Young, Opeth, Funeral for a Friend and Nick Drake. Not a lot has changed, I still pull away in both directions.
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