New Music From Peter Murphy!

 

I haven't ever really kept up with Peter Murphy's solo career, just dabbled here and there. This, however, may remedy that. Love this track. Out May 9th on Metropolis Records; there doesn't appear to be a pre-order link for Silver Shade yet, but check out the Metropolis site HERE.

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Watch:

I had a bit of a New Wave French Extreme binge over the weekend. Starting with my first rewatch of Maury and Bustillo's Inside:

Next up, Fabrice Du Walz's 2004 Calvaire, or The Incident, which the good folks at Yellow Veil cleaned up the transfer on and re-released last year via their partnership with Vinegary Syndrome.

 

I love both of these films intensely. Inside is one of my favorite Gore Flicks ever, and Calvaire is just so... patient. Finally, finished it off by ordering a copy of High Tension on Blu-Ray (had no idea it was out of print, and despite my many issues with the film, it's a seminal, import work AND boasts a fabulous score by one of my favorite composers, the late François-Eudes Chanfrault) and my second ever viewing of Pascal Laugier's Martyrs.

Man, NOT for the faint of heart. This film only proves to be something I can recommend to others based on the final moments of the film, even though it is an excellent film that very much has something to say. Everything that comes before the end is masterfully accomplished, but it's... a lot. 

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Playlist:

Witchfinder - Hazy Rites

Witchfinder - Forgotten Mansion

Melvins - Tarantula Heart

Sunn O))) - Domkirke

Nothing - Guilty of Everything

Perturbator - Lustful Sacraments

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

Dreamkid - Eponymous

Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes

Michael Kiwanuka - KIWANUKA

Vaguess - Bodhi Collection

Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower

Calexico - More Cowboys In Sweden (Live)

Me and That Man - New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol. 1

Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja

Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

Childish Gambino - Because the Internet

Outkast - The Love Below

Calderum - Mystical Fortress of Iberian Lands 

YERÛŠELEM - The Sublime

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Frank Black Teenager of the Year 30th Anniversary Tour

 

Got my tickets to join some of my best friends in the world for Frank Black's Teenager of the Year 30th anniversary tour. Mr. Black even has Lyle Workman back! 

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Watch:

Damian McCarthy first impressed the absolute hell out of me in 2022 with Caveat, a direct-to-Shudder film about a man talked into wearing a harness in an old house on a small island in Ireland. The man is supposedly been hired by a friend to watch his niece, but there are all kinds of WTF surrounding that idea, and the film, for all its slow-burn tendencies, rapidly escalates into a terrifying dirge of haunted guilt and bad decisions that culminate in...

Well, read the book. Or, ah, watch the movie. 

McCarthy's new film Oddity was on my radar but just barely, and I was SHOCKED and delighted to find that it opened at our Clarksville Regal this past Thursday. 

So far, it is neck-and-neck with Robert Morgan's Stopmotion for my favorite film of the year. I would post a trailer, but no. PLEASE, go see this in the theatre (it will most likely be gone after this week due to Deadpool) and DO NOT read, watch, or listen to anything about it. Go in blind, and I think this will smack you in the gob the way it did me—so much so that I have tickets to see it again tonight. 

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Play:

I've had Playdead's Inside for a couple years now, and while I have played and enjoyed it, it wasn't until this past weekend that I really fell in love with this game. Described as 'dream-like' in all the solicitation copy I've come across, I have to say, that's the perfect description. 

 

A week or so ago, my good friend Maddie messaged me about this game, saying that she remembered I had mentioned it and that she had recently become enthralled. This had me pull the game back out and pick at it off and on for a few days. Then, this past Saturday, I sat down in a darkened room with a beer and Adam Egypt Mortimer's The Obelisk on my turntable and the way the game and the music melded... it was just incredible. I left the sound up so I could hear all the atmospheric sound effects - hurried footsteps through standing water, giant industrial cranes and elevators moving and clanking, explosions, and, yes, dream-like wind and breathing - and my consciousness just folded into this world. It was beautiful. 

I don't want this one to end.

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Playlist:

Fear - Live For the Record

Frank Black - Teenager of the Year

Black Francis - Svn Fngrs

Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs

Frank Black - Eponymous

Tomahawk - Mit Gas

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Irony Is A Dead Scene E.P.

Ministry - Rio Grande Blood

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity

Justin Hamline - The House With Dead Leaves

The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me

The Besnard Lakes... Are the Roaring Night

Adam Egypt Mortimer - The Obelisk

M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us

Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit

Concrete Blonde - Eponymous

Phil Collins - Face Value

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Card:

From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.

• Knight of Wands 

• Four of Pentacles

• Six of Pentacles

The firey aspect of fire, pure white hot Intellect, stripped of all other human trappings. Here, it's being applied to Earthly matters, as we can see via the two Pentacles or Disks cards that follow. Four of Disks indicates stability, and the Six support or balance. What this tells me this morning is the balancing act I now maintain Monday - Friday may require an extra dose of reasoning to maintain. Not sure if this means this will be a heavy spreadsheet week (I'm only half joking and all cringe when I reference a spreadsheet in relation to the Tarot), or if I'll just have to side step emotional reactions to things that will require logical consideration instead of capricious emotion.