New Music From The Afghan Whigs!!!

 

The Afghan Whigs covering Polica? I haven't thought about Polica since... well, since HERE. So f'king cool! The Whigs also released a Still Corners cover. I've always loved the way, every once in a while, out of the blue, these guys will release a couple of covers. Very cool. Hoping this means there's new music on the way. 

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Watch:

Last night I took in a viewing of Mike P. Nelson's (why can't I think or say that name without thinking of Craig T. Nelson?) new remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night. 

 

I'll tell you right off the bat, I'm not much of a fan of the original. It's fine, just so sleazy it's not really my thing. That said, this film has a sequence that's getting some press where Santa kills a whole shit load of nazis.

Pretty fucking satisfying, in 2025, where nazis apparently think they're an identity choice or a protected group, to be getting so many stories lately where nazis get killed. Because, you know, the only good nazis are dead nazis. We all know that, right?

Anyway, as for the rest of the movie... It was AWESOME! I really dug this one. Go in blind, and if you can, see it in theatre. This is not a straight remake of the original film; writer/director Mike P. Nelson really does something different and, in my opinion, awesome, even while still incoporating the many of the main plot points of the '84.

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Playlist:

Brand New - Daisy

Barry Adamson - Cut to Black

Sumerlands - Dreamkiller

Phil Manzanera - Listen Now

Dreamkid - Daggers

Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja

Arcade Fire - Everything Now

Phil Collins - Face Value

Blut Aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons

Faetooth - Labrynthine

Mondo Decay - Nun Gun

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Card:

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

• Ten of Pentacles

• XI: Justice

• II: The High Priestess

Lasting stability threatened (or perhaps earned) by intuition. Wow. Literally applies to my thoughts right before writing this. Don't overthink a good thing and thus, sabotage it.

Givin' You the Ghost, Spider-man

It had been a minute since I'd pulled out Polica's 2012 debut Give You the Ghost. I don't really know all that much about this group/performer, and I'd forgotten how much I like this album. Above is the stand-out track, but really, the entire record plays like a cohesive whole. In the interim since I've checked in with Polica - yeah, it's been a minute - they've released quite a few records. I'm just starting to go through them now.  

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NCBD:

Another big pull list this week. Jesus Marvel, take my money:

As I suspected, we're closing in on the end of Nick Spencer's run on AMS, and looks like a lot of great stuff is happening. While I've been reading this, I've also been re-reading my old school, 80s Spidey comics, and I can kind of see how the current, post Brand New Day continuity is winding its way back to the one I grew up with. I don't love all of it - I especially don't like the retconning of Ned Leeds and AMS #289 which is HOLY in my opinion - but I can live with all of it just out of curiosity as to how this will land and, subsequently, how the new iteration of the title that kicks of at the end of the summer will play out.

I bought the first issue more out of resale ideology, but I'm curious enough that I might pick this up.

Another one that I'm not certain I'll actually be buying, but I'm curious enough to consider it, simply because I still love Flash Thompson in a Symbiote suite, and if I can't have him in Venom, I might just follow him here. Honestly though,  at a glance, all these other Symobiotic characters feel superfluous at best.

Loving this book and this issue probably wins for the best cover this week.

The finale to what has been an eloquent and downright beautiful exploration of how human beings relate to their own mortality.

Yet another that I'm not entirely sure I'm interested in buying. I'm looking forward to the upcoming Netflix series - I'd be looking forward to it more if there was Hordak or a Slime Pit involved - but the prospect of a comic based on what has historically been a completely under-represented and almost ignored property from my childhood looks pretty good on 'paper' at the moment.

The first issue didn't blow me away, but I'm interested enough to try number two. 

Still digging this weird SciFi/Horror/Action mash-up.

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Playlist:

Polica - Give You the Ghost 

Polica - Shulamith

Bells Into Machines - Eponymous

Perturbator - Nocture City EP

Zen Guerilla - Positronic Raygun

Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon

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Card:

 

Remembering to think of the bigger picture.

POLIÇA - "I Need $" // "So Leave"

Via Brooklyn Vegan. This is an interesting video in that I don't necessarily love the "story" but I quite like the way it is shot and assembled. The song is good too - as is most Polica - kind of stoic and removed. The "So Leave" part, while the shorter segment, is a nice outro a la older Massive Attack, in concept if not entirely in sound.

New Polica

New Polica and it is nothing like what I would have expected. Well, maybe that's not entirely true. That dark, shadowy vibe that is often a result of lead singer Channy Leaneagh's haunting vocals and those starry-eyed keyboards is still there, but there's an almost frenetic energy I wasn't expecting that gives the track a very subtle 80's element. And the bass guitar - as a bass player first and foremost these days I'm always a sucker for great bass playing and this song has it tenfold.

Again, thanks to Brooklyn Vegan for posting this.

Polica - Interview (2012 Slacker Radio)