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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
ADRIAN WOODHOUSE:
--- Quote from: E. Spaceman on 10 Nov 2009, 20:51 ---Regarding Death In June. While their lyrics and imagery do sometimes refer to fascism (specially the 3rd Reich). I do not think that DI6 is a fascist band. They are a band that is fronted by an openly homosexual man who was part of Crisis, a staunchly anti-fascist band, who played the first DI6 show at an anti racism rally, who has worked with several jewish people in his works, who was a member of the International Marxist Group, who has performed in Israel.
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Rose Clouds of Holocaust is my favourite Death In June album
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you forgot that one of the founding members (tony wakeford) had conections to clearly facist group and left the band when that fact came out!
and there are also leftwing people who chaneged their opinion aswell as the other way around. just because you are a homosexual or bisexual or whatever and worked wit a person with jewish faith
and have been to israel you still can be a racist and sadly racism isn't that simple to define anymore. there are even facists who like to listen for example to beastie boys occasionally.
death in june contributed a song for a sampler of a racist magazine as well as interviews for clearly pretty, pretty right wing magazines.
so if you can listen to it, knowing all that stuff...i can't do anything about it, but there maybe some people outthere who didn't know and mind the fact.
Scarychips:
You're saying that as if cheesy music is bad music.
DrNil:
--- Quote ---so if you can listen to it, knowing all that stuff...i can't do anything about it, but there maybe some people outthere who didn't know and mind the fact.
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Oh please. Can we keep the political activism outside the door? Death in June, as Sol Invictus and other neo-folk bands political affiliation and/or leanings should be ignored, and their artistic output enjoyed for what it is. There are plenty of extreme nationalistic bands in the US, for instance, or bands with a clear Zionist stance. Should those bands be defenestrated as well? If that were the case any German industrial/martial band should be banned from the airwaves. Freedom of speech and being a mature audience have a lot to do with this, as only very young idealists (an utopic stance to take) will take umbrage on whatever these artists think/do in their private lives.
Kai:
--- Quote from: ADRIAN WOODHOUSE on 12 Nov 2009, 04:55 ---you forgot that one of the founding members (tony wakeford) had conections to clearly facist group and left the band when that fact came out!
and there are also leftwing people who chaneged their opinion aswell as the other way around. just because you are a homosexual or bisexual or whatever and worked wit a person with jewish faith
and have been to israel you still can be a racist and sadly racism isn't that simple to define anymore. there are even facists who like to listen for example to beastie boys occasionally.
death in june contributed a song for a sampler of a racist magazine as well as interviews for clearly pretty, pretty right wing magazines.
so if you can listen to it, knowing all that stuff...i can't do anything about it, but there maybe some people outthere who didn't know and mind the fact.
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Tony Wakeford was asked to leave DI6 because of his involvement with the British National Front (which he later retracted as "the worst decision of [his] life," which you can read right here).
I'm not sure how fascists listening to the Beastie Boys is in any way a relevant (or useful argument).
I've read some of the stuff out there about how Douglas Pierce is a secret racist and a fascist, and is just using Death In June's music as an elaborate plot to secretly bring fascists together to bring Hitler back from the dead or something
and uh
well
it seems a little far-fetched, is all
Mr. Tool:
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
--- Quote ---It is strange hearing an album and having your first thought being “this is going to be big.” Some bands just give you the feeling that there is going to be a groundswell of support for them. Surfer Blood seems to have taken all of the right notes in compiling their sound to be that band. The vocals, sung with boyish charm by John Paul Pitts, have hints of Jim James’ (My Morning Jacket) space falsetto and really stand out behind the sweltering music created by the five piece Florida band. The music ventures into lo-fi hazy rock that randomly samples some of the best the genre has to offer, especially from many ’90s legends. The group also follows the Vampire Weekend path of incorporating the easily digestible portions of world music. Other sections have a My Morning Jacket/Band of Horses vibe when the reverb drenched guitars swell in bombastic glory.
The album starts with two of its strongest tracks, the dark and charging “Floating Vibes” and “Swim,” which was the first song I heard from the band and the track that really drew me in. The band dives into their world music kick with “Take it Easy,” and revisits the theme later in the album on the instrumental “Neighbor Riffs.” “Harmonix” is a sliding, mid tempo track that features, believe it or not, guitar harmonics backed by a bouncing bass line and up tempo drum beat. “Twin Peaks” finds Pitt’s echoed vocals backed by great guitar work. The next two songs would seem to be paired; “Fast Jabroni” is a great, buzzing song that really finds the band driving their sound forward while “Slow Jabroni” is a slower, more drawn out track that spreads it gloom and doom over songs six plus minute lifespan. A charging riff gives way to a more mundane song with “Anchorage,” which features such lifeless lines as “I don’t want to spin my wheels, I don’t got no wheels to spin.” The album closes out with the straightforward pop song “Catholic Pegasus,” which is a strong rebound from “Anchorage,” and has a strong feeling of loss, both in the somber lyrics and the darkly melodic music.
Astro Coast is a very strong debut album that has all of the makings of a band that is about to be heard by a large number of people. Like Cymbals Eat Guitar did earlier in the year, the band liberally take a pastiche of benchmark influences and adds their own dynamic to make a really strong record. Different people will hear different things when they hear Astro Coast, but I think it is safe to say a lot of people will like what they hear.
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