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 […]
Tag: Box Set
Vond – “Recordings 1993-1997” Box Set (2020)
I seem to be writing about dungeon synth a lot these days and I’m not entirely sure why. Admittedly I have been buying a lot of it lately, but it’s not as if plenty of other genres aren’t making it onto the stereo at Life In The Vinyl Lane World HeadquartersTM. But for whatever reason […]
“Bound For Hell: On The Sunset Strip” Boxset (2022)
Hair metal… glam metal… butt rock… call it what you will, but I loved it in the 80s, and I still love it today. In 1983 I made yet another in a series of cross-country moves with my parents, experiencing the pure, unadulterated culture shock of going from Alaska to South Carolina. Another new city. […]
Depressive Silence – “Vinyl Discography Boxset” (2023)
One of the interesting things about dungeon synth is music that comfortably fits into the genre was being made well before it had in fact been genre-fied. Back in the 90s you might have seen these releases lumped into the broader dark ambient categorization, and that’s certainly not wrong. But it does lack the specificity […]
Purrkur Pillnikk – “Orð Fyrir Dauða” Box Set (2023)
I re-entered the vinyl world in 2011 after what was about a 15 year hiatus. I don’t remember precisely what prompted me to get a new record player, though I know some of the music I wanted to explore simply never came out on CD, so that was part of it. If I’m being completely […]