![]() ![]() Maybe if one of the infinite denominations of religion had delivered on its hopeful promises in the first place, we wouldn't be in this mess. It's no wonder teenagers are vaping themselves into catatonia and gaffer-taping Skullcandy headphones to themselves in an attempt to drown out all the existential confusion with ASMR recordings of Emilia Clarke reciting the shipping forecast. The prosperous seek mental solace by hoarding overpriced wellness tat from Guru Paltrow. We have false idols like Love Island contestants and spreadable Biscoff. On the flipside, where it should have heralded a new dawn, free of superstition and bigotry, greater secularisation has left us with a spiritual void which is inadequately satiated by the total noise around us, a chaotic cacophony made up of different multimedia all screaming for our attention. In Northern Ireland, where Therapy? formed, sectarianism has also eased, something which until only recently was unimaginable (with no thanks to Brexit). This seems like the perfect opportunity to show how Therapy? leader Andy Cairns' state-of-the-nation prophetic genius has been criminally overlooked.Ĭhristianity has been on the wane since well before John Lennon observed that The Fab Four were hipper than that fit bloke with the stigmata in all those church windows. The fanfare that's surrounded OK Computer since its release has muffled the praise deserved by a record that came out the following year: 1998's Semi-Detached by the punk-metal-alternative-rock band Therapy? Their fourth album has finally been issued on LP, its only prior vinyl version being a limited boxset of multiple seven-inches which is, let's face it, the most ball-aching way to listen to a full album. But was Thom Yorke really the 90s' incarnation of Nostradamus? On 'Exit Music (For A Film)' he was writing about a centuries-old fictional romance. That might be accurate (although at least some of Berman's points were tongue-in-cheek). Writing on the twentieth anniversary of that cheerless opus, Pitchfork's Stuart Berman argued that Radiohead had even predicted the dismal future that once lay ahead of us and within which we now flounder inescapably. LP 6-8 – Live in Seattle – Seattle Center Arena – January 7, 1994Ġ2.According to critical consensus, Radiohead's OK Computer was the album that quintessentially captured our collective feelings of pre-millennial dread. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle *Ġ1. LP 3-5 – Live in Los Angeles – Great Western Forum – December 30, 1993Ġ3. Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The StripĠ2. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On SeattleĠ1. LP 1 – In Utero – Original Album RemasteredĠ5. This past May, Albini revealed the lengths the team went to in order to try to conceal the In Utero recording sessions from the public. ![]() Additionally, the album’s original tracklist, plus five bonus tracks and B-sides, have been remastered from the original analog master stereo tapes by Bob Weston, the only engineer other than Steve Albini who assisted on the original sessions.Įarlier this week, Nirvana’s Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic reunited with Albini for a discussion about In Utero on Conan O’Brien’s Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast. Among the 53 unreleased tracks are two full In Utero-era concerts, including the band’s final performance in Seattle, as well as six bonus live tracks recorded at various shows around the same time. Now, the album is being honored in a whole new fashion. Celebrating it on the occasion of its 25th anniversary in 2018, Consequence contributor Ryan Bray praised the album as “arguably the truest representation of what Nirvana was: a massive act with the principles and integrity of one half its size… It’s a difficult but ironclad document of artistic bravery.” The original In Utero arrived after Nirvana had already become global superstars, and is thematically characterized by the band’s discomfort with their status, particularly from frontman, Kurt Cobain. A new deluxe reissue of Nirvana’s In Utero, is out today (October 27th) to coincide with the album’s 30th anniversary. ![]()
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