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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3674 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ninety-Fifth Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Short Answer: School of Seven Bells - Kiss Them For Me

Long answer:

A few years back I was listening to Orb's "Live '93." I recalled reading about the album coming out in '93. I then realized that the time that had passed between me reading about the album and me listening to it was approximately equal to the amount of time between the album coming out and Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" coming out.

I immediately felt old, calcified and out of touch. I even tried listening to some dubstep, only to determine that it was badly deconstructed anthem trance.

Then this happened.

I signed up, got some new music, investigated some new artists, and found myself actually looking forward to a new album release for the first time since Massive Attack's 100th Window.

And it was awesome.

They came through exactly once; none of my friends wanted to go, so I didn't. That was a stupid decision. Benjamin Curtis died of Lymphoma two months later.

S7B had already gone from three members to two; I figured they wouldn't make it from two to one. Ghostly had nothing more to say about S7B so I assumed they were done. Not so, Alejandra had bumped over to Vagrant. I didn't realize this until last week.

And it's Siouxsie. I mixed Siouxsie twice and it was amazing. Here's a lady who's old school enough that Sid Vicious played in her band. Robert Smith played in her band. And S7B not only covers Siouxsie, the B-side is an amazing and new cover of When She Was Me.

Probably my least favorite Creatures track - this cover sounds nothing like it, and is amazing.

So I bought me an EP. It was almost, but not quite, enough for me to put my sad down.

PS. thenewgreen: https://drip.fm/subpop