Received a long overdue update of my meager Segerhuva collection; seger 26-29 arrived the other day together with two older cds which I haven't listened to yet.
seger29:
SRMEIXNER - Ten Thousand Ways To Die. Some sounds highly enjoyable, but it will need a lot more digestion before I get my head around it. Very diverse, but calm in a good way.
seger28:
CONTRASTATE - Regiment de Rapace. First of all: AMAZING cover art. More albums should look like that. Sound-wise, the A side was a bit lost on me; a bit too much speech, and not enough actual music. However, the B side, especially the opening track " Five minutes past midnight - and welcome to the speculator", is stunning.
seger27:
REGIM - Stabbed By The Blind. Sounds exactly like I expected, and exactly how I wanted it to. Harsher than INSTITUT, still as furious. Lirim Cajani upholds his position as one of the top Power Electronics musicians - if not
the top - in Sweden.
seger28:
HÖGA NORD. Feels superfluous to ramble about 2-3 year old albums in a scene so focused on the new and current, but this four-way split between BOCKSHOLM, DUSA, NIELLERADE FALLIBILISTHORSTAR and VÅRTGÅRD deserves to be mentioned again. I'm not going to describe the separate tracks, ranging from cynical old industrial to more experimental sounds (field recordings & stuff), suffice to say that everybody should own this, and not procuring this until last week was a big mistake on my part. Great artwork again.
So, go to
segerhuva.se and buy them all.
also on the stereo yesterday: HEINZ HOPF lp on A dear girl called Wendy. A-side together with a red ale from some Copenhagen microbrewery = harsh noise bliss. B-side perhaps too much focus on high-pitched buzz for my taste, yesterday at least. + UTMARKEN 3xc20 box. Still good.
