What are you Listening to Right Now? Febus XIV

Edited by HolyMoly - November 01 2014 at 21:02

Riverside - ADHD

MM - LLR (disc 2)

HC - Unrest

GYBE - Lift...

HolyMoly wrote: THE CHAMELEONS - "What Does Anything Mean? Basically" (1985) first listen... excepting the fact that I remember (by the cover) this album being played in the store occasionally when it was a new release and I was working at a record store as my first job.  None of the songs really ring a bell, but the unique vibe of the mid-80s post punk/new wave sound really does give some deja vu. Funny, I've gotten into a couple of retro-ish modern indie bands recently, and they all sound somewhat similar to this.  Kind of a mix of pre-fame Simple Minds (i.e. somewhat experimental) and the early murky work of The Church.

I've more thought of The Chameleons as the grey zone between the neo-psychedelic and goth sectors of the 1980s post-punk scene. I know that the latter took quite a few cues from The Doors, Hawkwind and Velvet Underground if they count as psychedelic, but The Chameleons struck me as somewhat more introverted and trippy than the rest of that brood without going into shoegaze or dreampop territory.

NP:


This Finnish doom metal act still stand out as one of those "new old school" metal groups who not only can match the classics of the respective subgenre they seek to reconstruct, but actually exceed them. This album I'd have no problem ranking up there with Candlemass' Epicus Doomicus Metallicus, Cathedral's Forest of Equilibrium, Type O Negative's World Coming Down etc.

Thanks for reminding me I need to listen to Botch and that entire brood too. I'm friends with quite a few people in the hardcore punk/grindcore scene here in Copenhagen, some of whose are in bands taking some cues from that scene.

NP:


Somewhere around 25 years later there's still quite not something that sounds or feels like Cathedral's Forest of Equilibrium. Not only is it a strange and terrifying missing link between doom metal's more traditional and extreme sub-genres, all the subtle folky and progressive touches help create a weird morbid-yet-colourful medieval/renaissance vibe of alchemy and witchcraft I've heard very few others capture.