Evil And A Heathen

There should be little doubt about how biased I am as I am writing this. “Highly” is an understatement.

Grinderman – Heathen Child

I am pretty convinced Nick Cave needs but breath and everything that comes in contact with his carbon dioxide becomes pure genius. Heathen Child was blessed with far more than Cave’s breath, so prepare to forget about Christ, Buddha and Krishna. Cave graces each second of this dirty sultry blues, each of Warren Ellis’s epically insane guitar riff with his part prophet part madman voice, with his story that might as well be turned into a novel like the Faulkner-scented And The Ass Saw The Angel. The album, Grinderman 2, is to be released on the 13^th of September and, be damn sure, there will be a very biased review up on this blog.

The Twilight Sad – Throw Yourself In The Water Again

The band’s upcoming EP, The Wrong Car, should be here as a whole, there is no denying. Both songs are fantastic and the remixes (one by Mogwai and one by Errors) are wonderful reworks of the original Forget The Night Ahead tracks. So why this particular track? Because of the paranoia the swirls of guitars voice each moment. Because of the way the pounding drums kick in the song biting hard into the air. Because of the distorted vocals the get lost in the web of the melody. Because of the way the instrumental fades when James Graham almost shouts “And I’m dancing over your grave”. Because of the sonic blast that follows that very moment. And, because, after all this, Throw Yourself… proves to be an insanely catchy song, the kind that follows you around all day, quietly playing itself in the back of your head.