It’s impossible not to wonder what would have happened to Joy Division in the long run. If Curtis’s death reinforced their image as funeral and morbid, it also fixed their legacy in amber, preserved it for all time through circumstances that in retrospect seemed artistically inevitable. — Simon Armitage in the liner notes for Eternal […]
Month: October 2026
Throbbing Gristle – “Éditions… Frankfurt… Berlin…” (1983)
Why oh why do I remain so infatuated with Throbbing Gristle? Why do I feel a visceral thrill when I run across one of their albums in the wild that I don’t have… and why can’t I resist the urge to buy it? Is it evidence of some underlying psychological or emotional problem buried deep […]
Travellers Rest – “In the Citadel of Solitude” (2026)
Nick Wusz is back at it again with what I believe to be his sixth album under his nom-de-dungeon-synth Travellers Rest. I’ve been been following him since the start, having picked up all the prior cassettes and pre-ordering In the Citadel of Solitude, and once again he doesn’t disappoint. A melancholy thread runs through In […]
C.O.M.A. – “Clinik Organik Muzak Anatomik” (1979)
C.O.M.A. was a short-lived new-wave-meets-avant-garde band from France. They emerged from the ashes of an equally short-lived punk band called Chaos, which did not put out any music during its lifetime but saw the release of a four-song 7″ in 2018 called White Punks On Slope comprised of tracks recorded four decades earlier in 1977. […]