Dual Analog merges spirituality & sexuality for new album, 'Lust, Worship & Desire'!
Seattle-based "turbowave" band, Dual Analog has just unveiled their new album, 'Lust, Worship & Desire'. Conceptually inspired by Buddhism, the album tells a story of the intersection of sexuality and spirituality.
The album opens with the narrator being kissed for the first time. After years of living without affection, he decides feminine love was missing from his life.
The narrator devotes his entire existence towards reclaiming that affection and the feelings it gave him. After realising he’ll never have another experience the same way as he did the first time, he learns his life was already complete before. Nothing was missing.
Only in learning to live without want are we able to achieve enlightenment. The album ends with the narrator learning to live with an appreciation of the present and learning the fleeting nature of all things.
Musically, Dual Analog describes their music as "turbowave", a mixture of new wave, industrial and heavy metal.
'Lust, Worship & Desire' is available NOW on digital platforms including Bandcamp.
43 years of Staircase Mystery - Siouxsie And The Banshees release their second single!
Today 43 ago Siouxsie And The Banshees released ‘The Staircase (Mystery)’, it was the band's second single and was released as a stand-alone single on 23 March 1979 (Polydor Records). It also became the band’s second top 40 entry, peaking at number 24 on the UK Singles Chart.
B-side features a cover-version of the 1973 T. Rex song ‘20th Century Boy’.
The song was later added to the singles compilation album Once Upon a Time: The Singles. Also the remastered 2005 version of their debut album The Scream, contained this single as bonus material.
The acknowledged British music Melody Maker hailed the single upon its release and wrote: "The Banshees have been able to come up with a couple of slices of excellent music for their singles. 'The Staircase' hasn't anywhere near the commercial potential or immediacy of 'Hong Kong Garden', but nevertheless it's a great song. A sinister almost mesmerizing tune, dominated by Siouxsie's unorthodox vocals – it grows and matures with each play.
The Staircase (Mystery) (Tracklist)
A. The Staircase (Mystery) 3:06
B. 20th Century Boy 1:57
DISCOGS
Siouxsie and the Banshees (1979 line-up)
Siouxsie Sioux – vocals
Steven Severin – bass guitar
John McKay – guitar
Kenny Morris – drums
The Staircase (Mystery) (Lyrics)
Stare case lying face up
Stare cat on a mat
Looking down
Slide down the banister
Take the escalator
Slide down the banister
Or try the elevator
I was standing on the landing
Now I'm standing in the hall
Looking up
Won't someone assist me
Solve this mystery
Somebody assist me
Arrange the symmetry
Muffled footsteps on the carpet
Spiral steps start spinning
Around me
Which floor which ceiling
You're off balance
Which floor which ceiling
It's all upside down
Stare case lying face up
Stare cat on a mat
Looking down...
Songwriters: Sioux / John Gareth Mckay / Kenneth Ian Morris / Steven Severin
When darkness falls, the beginning of a new end has come.
X MARKS THE PEDWALK again take us on an emotional, musical journey. Nine modern and catchy Electro-Pop songs tell about determination and strength as well as moments of pain and loss.
On their 11th studio album, the electro underground pioneers present varied and unique sounds: from the driving opener "Sailors at Dawn“, to the atmospheric "Firestorm“, the stirring "Wonder“ or the powerful "Kill me tonight“, to the melancholic "Sacred Ground“ and the anthemic "Yesterdays“. NEW / END marks another highlight in the more than 30 year band history.
Releases 29th April 2022
Industrial act, Against I's new EP, 'O.M.G.' brings humanity's darker side to life
Swedish industrial act, Against I, has just unleashed their new EP, O.M.G.. Against I is fronted by Fredrik Croona (Cynical Existence / Menschdefekt).
O.M.G. stands for Obscene Morbid Gore. The four tracks on the EP bring together the darker parts of humans; death, murder, greed and hate. The red line that goes through all tracks are these things. Musically the songs continue what the "Scum" single built up but with some more refinement. The EP also contains remixes by Teknovore and DeathVerified.
O.M.G. is available NOW in digital format on all streaming platforms including Bandcamp!
The Soul Walker | Celebrating The Sound Of The Late Scott Walker († March 22, 2019)
The voice of the late Scott Walker (born Noel Scott Engel; January 9, 1943 – March 22, 2019) is the sound of the sixties, everything that is free, soulful and beautifully constructed. When he sings the world stops turning and you are transported back to that decade. Visions of Mini Coopers, Mini Skirts, Piccadilly Circus and James Bond Films flood the senses.
Those of you unfamiliar with the sound of Scott Walker can try and imagine that it is the place in the road where Jim Morrison and Brian Wilson meet, think of the song 'God Only Knows' sung by The Doors instead of the Beach Boys, a perfect pop song sung with a dark intensity.
Indeed Walkers influence goes beyond that of a conventional artist, he has been cited as highly influential on songwriters such as-Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Steve Wilson, Thom Yorke, Jarvis Cocker, Neil Hannon and Julian Cope to name just a few.
For a man who was expected to follow the same path as Andy Williams or Frank Sinatra, falling into the superficial mainstream pop of other such crooners, he diverged his creepy sense of orchestral arrangements and focused his career on creating new paths instead of following ones already laid out.
When it comes to deconstructing Walker you find he is one of those rarities in music whose main instrument is his voice, the focus of every track, capturing the intense mood perfectly. With lush strings, drums, horn sections and guitars are always present but harder to reach as the voice is the vehicle the song rides on, everything else is there to promote it.
His split from The Walker Brothers, a bold step as they were at the top of their game, may have been down to him feeling like he was not doing want he had envisioned. The simple pressures of coming up with songs for The Walker Brothers had stunted his own personal creativity ,at one time it is said they had a larger fan base than The Beatles. In September of 1967 ,a little under six months since the last Walker Brothers album,'Images', Scott released his first solo album simply titled 'Scott'.
A critical and commercial success,reaching as high as no number-three on the UK charts, still on the heels of the Walker Brothers success although it would be the following year before it would see a Stateside release under the title ‘The Loner'. The albums varied material has and can be split into three sections, broadway hits, Walkers own compositions and covers of the infamous Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel and here we have the real triumph for Walker.
Brel, who only recorded songs in his own native language, where as Walker was able to acquire the English translation songs before anyone else.
On Walkers following two albums he included another six songs collectively by Brel, always citing him as one of the greatest songwriters on the planet.
The closing Brel penned track on 'Scott' called 'Amsterdam' was recorded and released by David Bowie during his Ziggy period,it is at this point you understand the full influence and impact of this fearless singer,as he both stirred the fearless musical adventures in so many others and gave them a focal point on which to model themselves on,Walker may not have been the biggest selling male solo artist of that decade but perhaps he was the most important.
[Kevin Burke]
