sharpe: someone needs to notify the systems of romance blog about these guys.
jen: "give me back my life/it belongs to me"
rich: may i have some more wine please? thank you.
sharpe: i think they played with WILDERNESS last year. that makes a terrifying sort of sense.
rich: dread.
jen: they'd probably 'get' our cover of seconds. if you know what i mean.
rich: we sure do jen... we sure do...
jen: "i never want to sink down to your reality"
sharpe & rich: yeah!
rich: i bet this band still uses land lines.
sharpe: work hard short life reminds me of the first 1000 HOMO DJ'S 12". that is a good thing.
rich: i have a theory (i've told this to jen) that the original european synth bands from like 1979-1984 were so convinced of that idea that WW3 would be fought in the european theater that all of that music was about that. see PETE SHELLY's homosapien video and even the let me go video by HEAVEN 17. yeah, seconds may have been about the JFK assassination but it was so much more than that. people seem to forget that for several years we were convinced the end of the world was only minutes away. i think that feeling is coming back.
jen: this reminds me of THE THE song on the some bizarre album (1981) which i don't really think sounds like THE THE. and also THE LOVED ONE, so they definitely have a good techno history behind them. also the title reminds me of no name no slogan (ACID HORSE), plus they kind of sound like that, going back to the alan jourgensen thing.
sharpe: are //TENSE// retro-futurist?
perpetual swim: "you walk the corporate ladder/be all that you can be/when money is all that matters/you sacrifice your individuality"
rich: i feel like i'm in my room in cranford nj in 1984 listening to the seton hall radio station (WSOU-FM) at 1 a.m. this is before it went metal and single-handedly destroyed college radio.
jen: [audible gasp] you are such a hater. i love the metal WSOU.
sharpe: i really can never get tired of dub echoes on the vocals.
rich: it's got that same sonic terrorism feel the MARK STEWART & MAFFIA as the veneer of democracy starts to fade record had yet it sounds nothing like it. it's both scary and beautiful.
rich: when our digital cable freezes up, for a split second i think its due to an electro-magnetic pulse and i instinctively start waiting for the flash and the explosion.
sharpe: have you ever seen the movie threads?
jen: (talking about //TENSE// again) its brand new its retro. its awesome.
sharpe: they lose points by having back to back songs start with the letter L. but if that is going to be the worst mistake on this...
rich: i think i heard one lives in houston and the other lives in new york city. but i could be wrong. as we all know my sister knows stephen merritt. i think he'd be scared by this band but you know i probably don't know what i'm talking about.
jen: listening to this recording reminds me of why THE MAGNETIC FIELDS went so horribly awry.
rich: thank god there are no guitars on this. have i told you how sick i am of the guitar lately?? the next person that says FISKADORO reminds them of SONIC YOUTH gets a punch in the mouth. no offense to sonic youth... we love them but...
sharpe: this is the music we need to be playing when we burn down the offices of goldman-sachs.
jen: is it apocalyptic enough? yeah, i think it is.. i think it is...
sharpe: do you guys have any weed?
rich: i think my friend d-jam of the mighty M-LAAB would consider this music thin. i think most music isn't thin enough. this answers that. this is fucking skeletal, its like the x-ray of your body as the flash hits and then you're vaporized. remember the day after? that movie plays like a documentary today!
jen: i love this so.. i'm so mad i couldn't see them last week. i was looking for a job and then i found a job...
sharpe: its sexy. its scary. its apocalyptic as fuck. its music for the times we live in but nobody seems to be brave enough to admit. "body to body. lips to lips." 2009 is 1984. the world ends tonight!
jen: can we listen to some HEAVEN 17 after this?
rich: whatever you want tiger..
What I wouldn't give for a radio station in Iowa that could stand up along side the metal WSOU. Cheers Jen!
ReplyDeletethis band are ace! blogged on them as well: http://fokkawolfe.blogspot.com/2010/03/tense-our-industrial-masters-of.html
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