This Track Is Fire!

As you may already know, last week was Bandcamp Friday . I love Bandcamp Friday and make an effort to purchase music each time they occur, and mostly I do (though last month I confess I was perusing music late at night and fell asleep, waking up after 3:00 AM Eastern, meaning I had missed it; oops!). I'm not exactly sure where I found the article but I stumbled across that about Dean Garcia, one of the founders of Curve, a personal favorite of mine (who I recently highlighted ). Said piece mentioned Curve, of course, the band he is most known for, as well as SPC ECO , which I have known about for years. I was surprised to find that he had many other side projects as well, which is how I discovered Blurred City Lights. I immediately found the Bandcamp page for the group and found their more recent album from last month. I hit play and immediately was welcomed to the nefarious sounds of a darker, more aggressive form of shoegaze that I did not know that I needed in my life. I once sa...

As I said when I posted about Front 242 , after just over a year of starting this blog I can't believe that it took me this long to post about one of my all-time favorite bands, Curve. Like, seriously, what is wrong with me? Again, I am rectifying it now. There are times in your life as a music lover that you hear a band, a song, that first time, and your immediate thought is,"WOW! What is this? Why haven't I heard this before?" This has happened to me many times, whether it be Nirvana, Atari Teenage Riot, Front 242, or, in this case, Curve. For me, the best way to describe this music is LUSH (ironic, considering that such is the name of one of their shoegaze peers), but for me this song, with Toni Halliday's melodic chanting/harmonizing and Dean Garcia's thick, syrupy bass line, covers me like a thick, velvet blanket on a cold winter's day. If Heaven was a song, I think it would "Horror Head," which, again, ironic considering the title and lyric...

I realize this is my blog with my own thoughts, but I like this song, and instead of trying to come up with different way of saying the same thing I think I'll just quote the blog where I found this band and this album : The new record from Newcastle’s Parastatic really shouldn’t work. Concrete Reborn is a post-punk, noise-rock, art-rock concept album about… brutalist architecture. It’s the kind of idea that sounds like a parody of a Pitchfork review. I’m here to tell you: it works. Does it ever. Concrete Reborn is dense, beautiful, political, and deeply strange. I really could not have said it any better myself, so why should I? Because, yeah, I agree with  Turn & Work , when it comes to this song and this album: this shouldn't work, and yet, it does ! First, I hope you enjoy this track, and secondly, I hope you check out and enjoy  Turn & Work .  They don't know me and I don't know them, but I've really been enjoying their blog since I discovered it a co...

  I recently rediscovered this lovely, chill track from five years ago, and it's immediately back into my rotation. If you're not familiar, SPC ECO is what came after one of the greatest bands of the 90s/00s, Curve, disbanded. While not the same band by any means, there is a vibe, a theme, a similarness that exists in both musical projects, most likely due to the fact that SPC ECO is the brain child of Dean Garcia, half of Curve, and his daughter, Rose Berlin. Sometimes I want to rock, sometimes I want to dance, and sometimes I want to chill the fuck out. This track is perfect for the latter. If you're interested, I wrote a much longer piece about SPC ECO, Curve, and this track on my main blog . Enjoy! FRI-20-2020 by SPC ECO