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this ambiguity and uncertain mood gives the album its immense power, and its fascinating mystique.
The Frightening Lights run the gauntlet between beautiful and disturbing
Let?s all practice the restraint of Frightening Lights because it will serve us all well. Needless to say, highly recommended
And nobody is supporting the attackers. Nobody.
Someone of us are just asking Europeans to stop being babies about it. This is absolutely not a freedom of speech issue.
Terrorism is what happens when you have a toxic society. It's the same over here and I say the same shit to US citizens who whine when shit like the Boston Marathon bombing happens.
...and if this strengthens the fascist right wing in France, it means that many people were just sitting on the fence waiting for a reason to hop over. I don't think that the riots in Ferguson caused people across the US to become racist, it just gave them an excuse to express their racist outrage. Fuck those people, and fuck those people who defend the racist drivel that newspaper published.
Again, where were these people when the gov't of Mexico executed 40+ students for expressing themselves?
Urgh. Not looking forward to the spectacle of hordes of soft-left 'liberals' clamouring over themselves to write nonsense whilst declaring themselves Defenders of Free Speech, somehow positing it as a moral duty to print offensive, racist things just to assert the right to do so. Free speech that's just an intensification of the language of social oppression, that's threatened only by those it oppresses, isn't freedom.
I wonder how many of these principled defenders of freedom also denounced France for banning the veil in 2010 and for banning Pro-Palestinian rallies this summer? Or for the very real erosion of the right to protest here in the UK?
Free speech is under attack, but not by criminals with guns. The idea that terrorism is in any way an existential threat to our rights or freedoms as citizens is moronic beyond belief, but will no doubt be spouted by journalists and politicians across the news tonight.
I might write a book about Wonderfuls one day.
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Harrowing, shivery Sandoval/Roback style romantic apocalypse from this Australian duo, last heard leading off the Warm Cupboard comp on Albert’s Basement. Vocalist Elizabeth Downey coos away at these tales of hurt and longing in eternal twilight, the sun peaking down below the horizon after it’s dried up the land below until it’s unfit for use. Dan Hawkins supports on bass, organ and a harmonium sounding instrument, creating a hellscape over which the beauty above glances and glides. It’s a strong mix of a contemporary sound offset in traces of the avant-garde, and though the comparisons to Mazzy Star and Opal are strong, they don’t detract from what this duo has to offer. Good last meal/final snack soundtrack for when the world seems just that grim. (http://bruit-direct.org)
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