Tuesday, May 16, 2023

RIP Zippyshare

Well, this sucks. In case you haven’t heard, the file hosting website Zippyshare is now defunct. This means pretty much all of our link will be dead. Reuploading and relinking everything manually would be too onerous, so it looks like our archives are defunct. Most of what we’ve posted (and much more) can be found at high bitrates in my soulseek library. I understand the main appeal of shareblogs is the curation though, so I may upload new things in the future. If I don’t: thanks for all the good times! I’ve been running this blog either alone or with others since age 14, and it’s been really fun.

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

The Mothmen - Pay Attention! (1981)

 

Interesting recording courtesy of Dave Rowbotham and two other alumni of Durutti Column. This album is a far-cry from Durutti Column, however, with the Mothmen favoring a jarring blend of oil pastel grime to the chalky refinement characteristic of LC. This album contains some delightful dub-influenced dervishes and Wire-inspired jams, with the spacier sounds culminating in a dissonant post-punk perambulation that clocks in at 20 minutes. About as 1981 as it gets!


Listen to me you big white monkey

Throw away that dictionary

Nothing there you'd want to know

Anyway, you learn so slow