Chan Marshall takes some time out this round to record some of her favorite songs to cover.
The new single clocks inat a mere 10 minutes, and contains two tracks. The first is of courseour first chance to hear Antony and the Johnsons, whose album isapparently being released through Dutro later in the spring.
Four words: Leif Garrett covers Nirvana. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" to be exact.
After listening to this everyday for over a week now, I am happy to report that it is indeed growing on me!
Instrumental dark ambient charnel ground, atmospheric music - from New York, of all places!
This is a wonderfully schizophrenic release, with an aptly chosen name.
After reading the descriptions of this release, I thought it might be interesting.
As morbid as it sounds,rough times usually make for the most brilliant art, whether it be thetortured artist's painting, the sick obsessive's love poems or themusician's pain and loss manifesting itself into beautiful sound.
The third album from post-rock post-kraut post-goth supergroup Mimir features members Christoph Heemann and Andreas Martin of HNAS, Edward Ka-Spel and The Silverman of Legendary Pink Dots with seminal guitarist/producer/noise artist/Spice Girls fan Jim O'Rourke.
Two brand swanking new 7" single releases are available now on vinyl from v/vm Test Recordings.
