Saturday 15 August 2009

Arming Eritrea



Dear Daniel,

Like a southern American Steptoe, you've spent a lot of time on here going through old metal. But where do your modern metallic tastes lie?

The edges are more blurred nowadays, so Future of the Left are very likely not metal. But let's not go down that road. I've paid little attention to them up until now cos I've been listening to a lot of music out of the US. That was before I discovered they were the remains of the Cardiff alt-noise fellows McLusky, who I was turned on to by John Peel a few years back. I liked their nonsense sensibilities:



and whoyouknow: "Your heart's gone the colour of Coca Cola"



I'm going to delve deeper into this latest FotL record. Why don't you join me?

Dear James,

All very entertaining this, sounds a bit like a heavy Pavement. And since Pavement were quite heavy sometimes, I suppose that means they sound like Pavement. Has the heavy indie genre been coined yet? The caretaker in our old building said he was in a "heavy country" band. He left before I could find out what that meant. As for my metal tastes nowadays, since I don't seek out new music anymore I'm stuck with trawling through the Black Sabbath back catalogue and the occasional System of a Down. This is still a good 'un:

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