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The Advisory Circle - Ways of Seeing (2018)

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“ I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I'm in constant movement. I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth. I fall and rise with the falling and rising bodies. This is I, the machine, maneuvering in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations. Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you. ” –Dziga Vertov What the hell is Hauntology music? I had no idea this genre existed, although it appears I’d been loitering in its neighborhood for years. As it happens, the Hauntology moniker is often applied retroactively, e.g. bands like the brilliant Boards of Canada, ...

Vain - No Respect (1989)

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Welcome to Davy Vain’s brilliantly perverse world of gutter realism… Self-destruction, death wish, sex and drug addiction, obsession, sexual coercion, and degradation, underscored with an endless stream of cocksure sado-masochism. These lyrical themes are part of the gutter realism explored by the filthy creature who created No Respect. Who invited me into this lurid nightmare? And why did I gladly accept the invitation and decide to stay for the after-party? Vain’s No Respect is sleaze rock at its finest. When I put this album on for the first time at the beginning of 2025, I had no idea that I was about to be forcibly sucked into the perverted, private world of the guy on the cover. I certainly would not have bet that it would stay in my rotation all year and eventually grow into to one of my all-time glam metal albums. I can’t even remember how this record found my ears, but I think I may have done a search for “What is the filthiest, most disrespectful rock album I should l...