Wednesday, August 20, 2008  12:07 am 

Bleeding but breathing

The 20JFg crew would like to apologise for the lack of updates in the last few days, but we have faced clouds of stress, been entrapped by chains of commitment, wrath and fury, survived the attacks of gremlin saboteurs and erm, something, so before those devilish tongues stretch cruel from the pit to swallow us again into the limbo of absence where we wage a war against the tedious forces of reality, we’d like to leave you with a few words and sweet music, which is what it’s all about.

Back to normal real soon, word.

Masters of kosmische doof Growing take us, in ‘All the Way’, surfing on the tail of a mystery comet which upon being detected by those massive radars trained upon the starry night, finds itself represented in glimmering waves of cubic sound, if Fuck Buttons blew a hole in the sky with their colossal onslaught, it is Growing that came from inside it, spreading all over our space like a rainbow gradient of alien love. There is a constellation in the shape of a Big Ship above you, and this is the music of its distant and beautiful glimmer.

Growing- Innit

Fucked Up’s new album, ‘The Chemistry of Common Life’ is claustrophobic like being buried alive as a sacrifice to the gods of thunder, and exhilarating like clawing out from that grave into woods bristling with life reincarnated into something akin to a god yourself, there must be some sort of chemical transformation occurring as the body returns from the grounds where it went to rest, and we couldn’t think of a better music to soundtrack it than their collision of spaced out stoner power, higher state metronomic Boredoms style transitions and damaged psyche folk ululations.

Fucked_Up-Royal Swan

This is the equivalent of a phantom deer jumping over the headlights of your car in a lonesome road, crashing through the wind shield and out through the back window like a nocturnal dream of righteous violence.

Now, things:

When in Berlin tonight, go and say hi to our main man G£nuin£ Guy. He rocks the party to standards unknown.

When in London on Friday come to Pacific Hotel, one of the 20JFG will be getting down with the winners, it’s going to be a total ball.

labels >> Fucked Up, Growing