Ahh, this band, "Earth". I was in a very Melvins mood the other day and was yearning for something even drudgier sludgier and drone-ier? I thought of Sunn o))). I then thought: "Sunn... like The Sun. Sun and...EARTH!!!" I haven't listened to them for a very very very long time. To start, they have very very very long songs. Not just long, but sloooow. The drummer must have some discipline. Thai Ch
Just got a disc by a band called Antelope. One of them there Dischord bands. Not too shabby. Really simple crystal cut song to slowly turn in the light. They're good little prisms, sometimes puzzle boxes, and sometimes streetcorner newspaper shouters. I'll just show you a touch of the prismatic.
Way up north on Austin Blvd. A practice space, cold, flickering flourescent, cracking paint kind of place. Big tall room, cinderblock and fourtyyearold school pa speaker up in the corner. This place must have been a factory of some sort. Picturing the manager addressing the workers, keeping them in line. Here we are, years later, when the place is ready to crumble to the ground, hanging microph...
I mean, the very idea of psychedelic country... Hot damn. Something about this song, this crazy fiddle, it has such a joy and intensity to it that makes me move. Dig. . .