Betty: They are gone, sir, in great Anger.
Petulant: Enough, let ‘em trundle. Anger helps Complexion, saves Paint.
The Way Of The World
DJ Food – “The Riff”
Kaleidoscope
This fun album comes via Ninja Tune, a label I listened to almost exclusively for a few months. DJ Food is a talented sound collage artist, and while this track isn’t really the most representative, it is one of the more original-sounding. Very fun, very frenetic. (Ninja Tune)
The Tower Menagerie
“He is neither more nor less than a cat, of immense size and corresponding power it is true, but not on that account the less endowed with all the guileful and vindictive passions of that faithless tribe.”
Shall I say thou art a man, that hast all the symptoms of a beast? How shall i know thee to be a man? By thy shape? That affrights me more, when I see a beast in likeness of a man.
The Anatomy Of Melancholy
And yet with crimes to us unknown,
Our sons shall mark the coming age their own.
Horace
Rachel’s – “The Mysterious Disappearance Of Louis Leprince”
Selenography
Another track from the only Rachel’s record I’ve really ever listened to. This is the other standout from this album, the one that was playing when I decided I must have this record. I wasn’t familiar with post-rock, modern chamber music, or really anything at all when I heard it, so it struck me as completely original then, and while it’s lost some of its mystery to more mysterious artists, it’s notable in my life as one of the songs that got me listening to lots and lots of other things.
Victor Hugo, Le Phare de Casquets
He was a madman that said it, and thou peradventure are as mad to read it.
The Anatomy Of Melancholy
Arnold Böcklin, Roman Landscape