Here's one K found recently and I am completely enamored with. If you're like me and feel compelled to make "Best of the Year" lists, then you probably know that the rule of thumb is traditionally, the moment you post your "Ten Favorite Albums of the Year," you'll come across a new one that should have been on it. That is most definitely the case with Stephen Sanchez's Angel Face.
K's a huge Twin Temple fan, and it was on some social media page or feed dedicated to them that she ran across Mr. Sanchez's music. The moment I heard this, I was in love!
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My month in L.A. essentially served as a complete pause on Acceptance, the third and final volume in Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach Trilogy.
Despite my gusto for Vandermeer's writing, I found myself having a difficult time concentrating while I was there. Off nights where I stayed in the hotel - of which there were purposely quite a few - I advanced a handful of chapter but never made any significant progress. So, now home and properly rested, I took to finishing Acceptance over the weekend and am happy to report that, while the second book, Authority, remains my favorite of the three, the entire cycle is an outstanding example of Literary Science Fiction meeting Literary Horror. Really deep concepts of self, authority, defiance and human nature at play, with some genuinely horrific ideas executed in a generally psychologically disturbing manner. Although, there are some real visceral moments, as well. The kind of "shell game" Vandermeer plays with his characters is endlessly fascinating, as you see people's situations and motivations from multiple angles, back and forth through time. This lends the books an even more surreal quality than they already have, just being based on the concept of a subtle alien presence slowly imitating and replacing all life inside a specified area.
Next, I'm picking back up with Mary Roach's Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife.
Playlist:
Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer OST
Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon
Richard Einhorn - Shockwaves OST
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers of the Icy Ages
Turnstile - Glow On
The Bronx - (II)
Ministry - Filth Pig
Firebreather - Under A Blood Moon
Nobuhiko Morino - Versus OST
Stephen Sanchez - Angel Face
Double Life - Indifferent Stars
Witchfinder - Hazy Rites
Run the Jewels - RTJ4
The Plimsouls - Everywhere At Once
The Police - Synchronicity
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Back to the classic Thoth for today's Pull:
• 10 of Swords - Ruin
• V: The Hierophant
• Princess of Swords
The hasty revelation of a 'secret' results in a negative experience.
Wow. Okay. The surprise I was going to reveal this week is going to wait until I put a little more time into it. Well-timed, Thoth. Well-timed.
