Have A Nice Life - Deathconciousness

Deathconsciousness is a 5 year long labor of love from Connecticut duo Have A Nice Life. This is a shoegaze masterpiece, hailed by many as one of the best releases of 2008. This is one of those epic albums that has to be experienced in its entirety, originally released as a double album and included a 75 page booklet which Ive yet to see(if you find it let me know) the budget was a thousand bucks which included recording plus packaging, an incredible feat if you consider the time it took and the grandeur of the material.
The album's cover art features Jacques-Louis David's infamous portrait: The Death of Marat. A very strong statement considering the history of said painting. The music features droning bass lines, screeching goth-tuned guitars and catatonic beats which really steal the show. Their influences vary from Swans to My Bloody Valentine to Joy Division amongst other masters.
Just try not moving with the beat of "Bloodhail"'s chorus line or getting the hair's in your arm to stick up halfway through "Earthmover"

Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000

The Damned - The Black Album.

Long before jay-z, The Damned spat out this lil gem of an album. Anyone not familiar with these mongrels, The Damned rose from the cesspool of early UK punk rock. One of the best and most persistant of the bunch. They burst out with the first ever (UK) punk rock single "new rose" and shit just hasn't been the same since. They're charectarized by a hokey goth influence which never overshadows their raw rock and roll energy. This is one of my all-time favorite bands, and this is The Black Album, one of their most overlooked and really my favorite, after that would have to come Machine Gun Ettiquette. Here we have some of their better known singles including "wait for the blackout" & "history of the world" one of their catchier tunes. If I ever were to make a top ten list of fav songs ever, which i hesitate to do, "Curtain Call" the apt-titled closer would be on the top of the list, a 17 minute mammoth of a track. Enjoy.

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