This Track Is Fire!

What is Bandcamp Friday, you may ask? All you need to know is right  here . It's always good to support independent artists and independent music, especially when Bandcamp is foregoing their cut for 24 hours. Here's what I bought back in February ! Buy something cool!

I've noted previously that I have a lot of music, perhaps too much, and that yeah, sometimes when I think I have discovered a band, oops, I already bought something from them months, or years, earlier. This isn't quite that case, but rather, I have so much music that I sometimes I lose track of an artist that I truly love ( like Missio ) because, well, life happens, work happens, and I get behind. That's what happened here with Purity Ring. For me, their 2015 album another eternity  is perfection, an album I had on repeat for what seemed like forever. They got popular, Katy Perry asked her to work with her on one of her albums, and then asked them to tour with her (I went thanks to a $25 Groupon), and then, sometime after 2017, nine years ago now, well, I think I just kind of lost track of them. I remember WOMB  and watching them perform on a late night talkshow, but again, this is on me and does not reflect on the quality of the band or their music, I just kind of lost tou...

What is Bandcamp Friday, you may ask? All you need to know is right  here . It's always good to support independent artists and independent music, especially when Bandcamp is foregoing their cut for 24 hours. Buy something cool!

I discovered Nils Frahm, oddly enough, during a previous Bandcamp Friday, specifically his album Music For Animals  (so good!). I almost immediately became a fan of his electronic pieces, learning after that he started out as a pianist and then expanded into the realm of electronic music. This album captures his live performance at Funkhaus Berlin in Germany and I admit that it has been on my vinyl wishlight for a few years now. Last week it hit a price point that I was happy to pay, so I pulled the trigger. It arrived last Friday, and to say the album sublime does not do the word, or the album, justice. Neither does just saying "it's so fucking good ," though that is also certainly true. I have always preferred the visceral to the technical when it comes to my musical tastes, which explains my preference for Beethoven over Mozart, and this album moves  me. Shouldn't all great music? Honestly, it's hard to pick a single track from this performance as they are all ...

This is a recent discovery, but it fits with my unintended theme this week of synth-based music (other than, you know, the celebrities we lost). Also, I've been listening to it non-stop for the better part of the last day, but that's how my obsessions work. A couple listens? Sure, it's a good track. Almost constant repeat over the last 18 hours? Yeah, that has to go on the blog. I've already added this to my Bandcamp wishlish and will most likely be buying this track, if not the entire album, next week during Bandcamp Friday. I don't claim to be goth, but I am certainly goth adjacent in many of my interests, and that electric, throbbing synth line send chills up my spine, as a good post-punk track should. What can I say, this track is fire! Welcome to Friday, you've made it through the week! Enjoy! Matter of Choice by Cold Showers

Clue It Legend The list of movies and stage productions that Tim Curry starred in is vast and varied, showing his many facets as an actor. But yes, he will forever be tied to the iconic role of Dr. Frank-N-Further from  The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Apologies for the title of the song, it's a product of its time and the language used then. I do not intend to upset or offend. Again, kind of like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , language, as well as what is acceptable, can change over time, and if you listen to the song and its lyrics, it's clear that the term was not used as a slur; in fact, it seems to be used in a very positive light. Don't get strung out by the way that I look Don't judge a book by its cover I'm not much of a man by the light of day But by night, I'm one hell of a lover I'm just a sweet transvestite From Transexual, Transylvania Curry was a bold and powerful talent who will be greatly missed, but we still have his art.