Goiter Sanchez

Christmas music just started playing non-stop at my work... I hear about 8 different renditions of every popular Christmas song; different singers, different languages, same bullshit... The production on modern Christmas covers is some of the most atrociously banal production to be had since they rush this shit to market in time for shopping season; no subtleties in the programming or interesting synth voicings, just a bunch of cunts practicing their scales over the downtrodden melody of 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' in a pathetic effort to modernize it. Here's a hint; in your efforts to ostensibly 'modernize' a piece of music by exploiting popular R&B idioms for the vocals, consider that a line like "Make the yuletide gay" doesn't quite hold up in a modern context post nearly 100 years of linguistic evolution and just sounds ridiculous now! Fuck's sake!!!!!!!!!!! BAHHHHH!!!!!! FIRST WORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRLLLLLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, tonight's episode was great! But now we have to wait until February for more episodes?! *SPOILER* I'm glad Sophia is no longer a linchpin in the progression of the plot. *SPOILER*

I have not heard any Drexciya, but I have heard about them an awful lot. I have 'The Other People Place' album on Warp which was James Stinson's solo project and enjoyed it... What would be the best place to start? I've heard their stuff can be hard to find so preferably something that isn't an obscure vinyl-only EP from 1992 (at least until I go crazy for them and need to collect everything).

Right now a canker sore in my mouth is making eating these salt n' vinegar chips quite painful :(

I work as a hair stylist by day so I hear more than my share of first world problems. A girl today was saying that the blonde high-lights she'd had in the past had been 'too brassy' and went on an impassioned tirade; her life had essentially come to a halt because her hair was a shade off... Another client of mine was complaining about how she sent her car to be washed / detailed today and found that there was still some dust on her dashboard afterword. She was livid!

Don't let it stop you!

I am loving this album in a way that I haven't loved anything for ages! Track 11, 'Motions', is one of the most tragically nostalgic things I've ever heard... Irene Caraesque vocals cut up against a tapestry of Teen Drama fanfares. It is hauntingly effective! BoC, eat your heart out...

Nothing since has sounded quite like Succour. One can definitely hear the progression from Quique to Faults away from more 'drone' oriented guitar-scapes (with the exception of Ch-Vox). The newer productions have a more static-burst aesthetic. I look forward to the new album. A rare Seefeel track from a 1990s comp...

BE were amazing for a split second then MHTRTC was released.. What do Bowery Electric have to do with MHTRTC? The closest moments I can conjure relating to shoegazing in BoC's catalog are the unreleased snippet of 'Wouldn't You Like To Be Free?' and the intro to 'Dayvan Cowboy'; though I understand that they cite some prominent shoegaze acts as an influence to their sound.

Seefeel just did a Red Bull Music Academy interview including a Q&A with Mark & Sarah and some tracks. Check it out HERE.

Because they haven't been explicitly mentioned yet... 'Beat' by Bowery Electric... And 'Quique' by Seefeel... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2GWnEc4FEI Edit: Also 'Doppelganger' by Curve These are on the more electronic side of things compared to a lot of bands that identify as Shoegaze.

I'm not sure, but I noticed that on the back cover of 'Cavity Job' it reads "Written by S. Booth and R. Brown for M.Y.S.L.B Promotions." Maybe 'myslb' appears obliquely on other releases, kind of like 'Pleasure is our business' (PIOB).

Orange Romeda has some of the most detailed and intricate percussion they've ever done! It just builds and builds... It's always been one of my favorites.