Tuesday, January 07, 2003

Thank You Secret Santa!

For sending me my lovely Christmas gift of this wonderful Silver Mt Zion CD.

This is the first time I'd done this, and it was great wondering what I was going to get for my pressie. You signed up at Think Blank Dot Com [Dead Link] and gave them your Amazon wish list. Just before Xmas they send you somebody else's list and you buy them an item on it. I bought some Dance compilation for my blokie, and this guy - Kevin - got me this album. Thanks M8! Appreciated. Here?s his blog so check him out [Dead Link].

As for the CD, it has to be one of my favourite record titles ever "He has left us alone but shafts of light sometimes grace the corner of our rooms?" Phew! The album is pretty good as well. Darkly melancholic and minimal. Similar but pared down sounds to Godspeed You Black Emperor. Slow, empty, haunting, and featuring one of the best sung post-rock tracks ever (after CODY by Mogwai) in the World is SickSICK; (So kiss me Quick)? Heart-aching stuff. Not quite there, but not far off.

Posted by Dio Bach at 12:21

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