SOUNDTRACK: YUCK-“Rebirth” (2013).
Yuck put out a great albumin 2011. And then a principal songwriter and singer Daniel Blumberg left the band. So they regrouped and are coming out with Rebirth (due in the fall). This track is very My Bloody Valentinesque–big echoey guitars with gentle vocals on top of them.
The big difference comes in the bridge which seems a little more pop than most MBV songs. The chorus also has a few guitar notes that stand out as unechoed notes which also break the shoegaze vibe in a very interesting way. The biggest surprise comes at the end when the song turns into mostly drums with a bit of a keyboard/dancey feel. It’s just a touch to show that they are not simply mimicking shoegaze, they are using it in their own way.
I’m excited to hear what else the come up with.
[READ: August 8, 2013] “The Horror at Martin’s Beach”
This short story was written by H.P. Lovecraft’s wife, Sonia H. Greene. Apparently Lovecraft then edited/reworked it before publication in Weird Tales (when it was titled “The Invisible Monster”) although it seems every anthologized version has the “Martin’s Beach” title. For more about Weird Tales issues, check out Yankee Classic.
I’m not sure how much work Lovecraft did on this story as it doesn’t have any of the hallmarks of his own work. Indeed, it is a fairly straightforward story with none of the gods and supernatural eerieness that Lovecraft puts in his work. Which is not to say that this story doesn’t have supernatural elements, it’s just not Lovecraft’s supernatural elements.
In this short story, a group of sailors of the coast of Gloucester fought with an undersea beast for 40 hours before subduing it. The beast was huge–nearly fifty feet long and ten feet in its cylindrical diameter. Although it was clearly a fish, it also had small forelegs. Its skin was thick and, most peculiarly, it has one, giant eye. After it was dissected, scientists determined that despite the enormity of the creature, it was only a baby–simply a few days old. (more…)
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