![]() ![]() Yet there is a sombre undertow, a tingling, a worrying worry behind the abandonment… maybe there always is? Sure, I can hear a little Kristin Hersh in some of this, the way it backs and forth, the restless spirit…. Delirium and repetition and disorientation and long drawn-out hysterical laughter. Plasticine monsters and hippie hairdos and long graffitied walls. Me? I need to pull the shutters down and pretend suburbia doesn’t exist if I’m gonna let loose on the piano.ĭamn, it makes me so happy to be living in a world where music like this exists. It’s always a delight to hear music sung so freely, with such abandon. ![]() The singer has a lilt in their voice that sounds like they’re laughing half the time and the other half? Sugar hiccup. This is so fucking good, in a delirious, woozy, too-much-downers-and-amphetamine-causing-stuffed-noses way that it makes me want to start ANOTHER FUCKEN MAGAZINE just so I can slap this bunch on the front and make a bunch of puns about Cocteau Twins and sunsets and Sesame Street and the abuse of (electrical) power. Now lissen up and lissen good: I fucking near singlehandedly invented the entity known as “Seattle” – well, me and a couple of other rancid souls – so I feel like I have some kinda fucken stake in tellin’ you what is good and what is not when it comes to music emanating from that fair bloated city and I gotta tell you right now in bold neon capital letters THIS IS THE GOOD SHIT! One disclaimer: I am not going to include music that does not connect with me.įor our second entry, we have a suggestion (one of two) from 5-Track (Zinnia Su) – ‘Low’, from the Stay Evil EP by Black Ends. Enough folk came forward for this to be a realistic basis for a blog series. To celebrate my 60th birthday, I asked my Facebook friends to nominate a favourite song from 2021 – 60 to commemorate the fact I am now 10 years older than Joey Ramone when he died. ![]()
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