Weyes Blood and the Dark Juices - The Outside Room LP (not not fun 2011)

Hypnagogic hallucination

These hallucinations occur just before falling asleep, and affect a surprisingly high proportion of the population. The hallucinations can last from seconds to minutes, all the while the subject usually remains aware of the true nature of the images. These may be associated with narcolepsy. Hypnagogic hallucinations are sometimes associated with brainstem abnormalities, but this is rare. In other words Natalie Mering from Jackie-O Motherfucker seems possesed by Nico's Desertshore.

Propably you all know 'till now that i am a bored bastard. I dont know if i have to blame the sun, the drinks or the vacations i've been to show me (arround) and you how lazy i feel the past 2 months. If all of the above doesn't make you want to hate me, just check the date on my previous post... Anyways i had to find something really good to get me writting stuff again and i find this in the Weyes Blood LP that i got some days ago.

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Jackie-O Motherfucker - Fig. 5 (2000)

For all its disparate strands, Fig. 5 is surprisingly cohesive, constructing some ratcheted new sound with junk and memory rather than laundering old sounds with the irony and veiled contempt of other pastiche exercises. The disc itself is packaged in an oddly fascinating die-cut cardboard folio, complete with snippets of Alan Lomax's celebrated American ethnomusicology. Fig. 5 is slow and plodding like time itself. This work, again, simply has no precedents. Or rather, its precedents lie in the dusty anonymities of American musical history, instead of the proud and touted monuments of our cultural past. Listen to it once if you can.

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