“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Saturday, June 11, 2011

Agalloch


New friend Carl DiSalvo gave me Agalloch's album Ashes Against the Grain. Very good. I'm a fan of art that does what I call tuning. This can take many forms but one in particular interests me at present. Ideally, in music, this would be a sound so intense that it affects your body very strongly, but is so beautiful that it keeps your ears open to it, so that you are affected still more. Agalloch scores in this regard, occupying a strange edge between shoegaze and metal (to my ears).

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