In memory of Mark E. Smith, singer, songwriter, musician and founding member (and only permanent member) of the post-punk band The Fall from 1976, passed away 6 years ago today.
As a #bassist, I love this line from @pitchfork’s just-published retrospective review of #CocteauTwins’ 1983 album ‘Head Over Heels’:
“Rather than locking with the beats to form a conventional rhythm section, the #bass is like a brocade stitched along the song’s hem, decorative and harmonic rather than propulsive and bolstering.”
I was going to wait until next Wednesday for Music Women Wednesday for this one, but I need to talk about this album right now.
'Precious Dream' by Hot Garbage came out today and I just finished listening to it. It's perfect. More than likely will make my top 20 this year unless 20 other amazing albums somehow surpass it. I doubt they will. Both Juliana and Alex Carlevaris sing, they're siblings. It's like psych, garage, post punk, shoegaze? But there's also some wild bluesy and dark country-ish vibes. It's amazing fuckin SONGWRITING is what it is. This is Hot Garbage's second album, now I gotta check out their first.
#GreatAlbums1980s - #TheTeardropExplodes – Kilimanjaro (1980). Like fellow Liverpudlians Echo & the Bunnymen, Teardrop coalesced around a preening frontman, Julian Cope, and a style combining post-punk with 60s outliers like the Doors and the Seeds. Peak moments – "Treason," "Books," and "Reward" (on the reissue only) – felt cathartic and grandiose, with Cope emoting like technopop Iggy over wall-of-sound arrangements anticipating "the Big Music" of later years.
Anja Huwe, damalige Frontfrau der legendären Xmal Deutschland, bringt am 8. März 2024 ein Soloalbum "Codes" heraus - 35 Jahre nach dem letzten Album von Xmal Deutschland.
45 years ago today
English post-punk band Joy Division (Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris), photographed in Hulme, Manchester, January 6, 1979.
"Stigmata Martyr" is a seminal track by Bauhaus, a pioneering gothic rock band. Released in 1980 on their debut album "In the Flat Field", the song was later included in their 1982 album "The Sky’s Gone Out". It delves into themes of pain, sacrifice, religion, and spirituality, showcasing Bauhaus' unique and haunting style.
Death Bells - Only You [Post-Punk] [2017] (www.youtube.com)