Part twenty-one of an array of CD mixes I made for my wife over a long number of years! Read more about it here!
Content Warning
This post contains mentions of death. A lot of mentions.
For some inexplicable reason, I have two covers for this disc. I chose the red one for the post because it’s far more striking and evocative, and the other? A bit gets lost with the cluster. However? Not sure which I gave to my wife!
However? I really like both of them. It’d tweak some of the margins on the front, and yet again I have no idea what I was thinking with some of the suffixes as there’s absolutely no consistency there, but I do think both are goddamn striking.
There’s a lot of great stuff here! RASPUTINA! An entire band comprised of women cellists! I was so fucking delighted to see ’em live! I used to be a cellist! (I can still play, but I’d be rubbish at it but it’s one of those things that you did enough at a specific age that you can never forget. When I re-listen to this I can hear the notations and finger twangs and bow pressure and strings tensing and it is goddamn delightful.)
MI AMI’s ‘Latin Lover’? I can’t help but throw my arms around when I hear it.
Goddamn CARY ANN HEARST. ‘Are You Ready to Die’ is also one of my fucking anthems.
TALK NORMAL! (They were so awesome and brazenly noisy when I saw ’em!) SLOW CLUB! THE RAVEONETTES! YANKA! (R.I.P. Uh, yeah, that death? Not great.)
I want to give a special shout-out to THOSE DARLINS and the much-missed Jessi Zazu. I was fortunate enough to be able to rock out to them live when they hit Chicago for their ‘Screws Get Loose’ tour. ‘Keep My Skillet’ is a raucous folk cover and their version is so endearing. The band may be no longer, but misfits like myself will always remember them.
Goddamn. When I see all of this spelled out? There are a hell of a lot of works included here that either focus on or are related to death here. (I didn’t even mention CROCODILES & THE DUM DUMS’ ‘Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Don’t Die)’.) My apologies. I can only think that it was in the back of my brain at the time. I mean, I’m goth and are very accepting of the more morbid facets of life — that doesn’t mean I deal well with personal loss! — but I must’ve been dealing with some shit when I made this mix.
Well, that went dark pretty quickly.
Anyway, this mix brings me joy and reminds me of better times, and perhaps it’ll do the same for you.
As with the prior motherfucking twenty Electroclature posts: Artist / Album / Song and if there’s a link? It goes to a video for the song.
- LAURA MARLING / I Speak Because I Can / Alpha Shallows
- TWO STAR SYMPHONY / Love and Other Demons / Goblin Attack!
- RASPUTINA / Sister Kinderhook / Holocaust of Giants
- KRADDY / Android Porn Remixes / Android Porn [Playpad Circus]
- LULLABYE ARKESTRA / Ampgrave / Y’Mare Me Shake
- MI AMI / Steal Your Face / Latin Lover
- Colourmusic / My _ Is Pink / Yes!
- LOVE IS ALL / Two Thousand and Ten Injuries / Dust
- CARY ANN HEARST / Lions and Lambs / Are You Ready To Die
- CROCODILES & DUM DUM GIRLS / Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Don’t Die) / Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Don’t Die)
- TALK NORMAL / Sugarland / Transmission Lost
- SLOW CLUB / Yeah, So? / It Doesn’t Have To Be Beautiful
- THE RAVEONETTES / In And Out Of Control / Bang!
- YANKA / Styd i Sram / vyshe nogi ot zemli (a.k.a. ВЫШЕ НОГИ)
- SLEIGH BELLS / Treat / Tell ‘Em!
- THOSE DARLINS / Those Darlins / Keep My Skillet
- Bonus live track for their hedonistic song ‘The Whole Damn Thing‘, which is all about getting drunk and then eating an entire chicken in the kitchen.