Even if it’s quality stuff! You can watch a concert by a master musician on YouTube, the whole concert, and still feel emptied out, scooped out, like it took something from you. But that power of choice doesn’t make it any less oppressive. The promise of the internet that was so exciting for people was that you can be the programmer you can choose what to explore and what to learn about, what to view or listen to. And then you just feel gutted after fifteen minutes. I don’t know what kind of brain waves are generated – delta waves, or gamma rays, or whatever – but low waves. I get the same feeling from the internet that I get from channel-surfing on the television. There are many albums released that don’t get anything written about them, which is a blessing and a curse I guess.Īny time I use the internet in a leisurely way, I feel like I’m wasting my time. I think formerly if a record didn’t get reviewed, it didn’t exist, and that’s no longer the case. Today I wouldn’t even know where to read them. Even more interestingly, it didn’t matter whether they were positive or negative reviews. So I did pay attention to reviews when I was younger, but after a while I realised I always felt strange after reading them. At a certain point they stopped reviewing records I had anything to do with it seemed we no longer met whatever their criteria was.
If you never heard any other Lungfish records those are the two to hear, in my opinion – if you’re not going to sit down and listen to them all.Įarlier on, I cared more about what critics thought of our records – I’d always check to see if Maximum Rocknroll had reviewed it or something. With those two records the quest was over. But I think this one is a good entry point.ĭH: This one and Feral Hymns were the last two Lungfish records, and they’re the culmination of almost twenty years of collaboration. It was put to me that I should think about what records would provide a good introduction to my work, an indication of what I’ve been doing all this time, which is not usually how I think about what I’m doing I usually just think about what I’m doing now. It was a lot of fun making the record, and I think the songs are pretty simple. We composed the songs as we recorded them, exclusively. Here the artist picks out ten of his favourite releases from various projects with a few gloriously off-road excursions along the way.ĭaniel Higgs: Asa and I spent a year recording this record in his house. Now two albums deep into Fountainsun, the beautiful folk project with his partner Fumie Ishii, he seems to be channelling the old gods with more power than ever, even if it’s mostly via banjo and poetry these days. Higgs’ hardcore spirit – the one that began way back with Baltimore punks The Reptile House back in the 80s – lives on, though it’s undeniably got quieter over the years. 2010’s Say God, for example, is largely made up of quasi-religious spoken-word mantras, including around a hundred invocations to ‘say god’ in the title track. It’s an invigorating seventy minutes.Ĭoming up on Dischord alongside Fugazi, who also formed in 1987, the hardcore spirit at the heart of Lungfish was always rendered weirder and more exploratory by Higgs’ fascination with occult, pagan and alternative cosmologies, a spiritual journey that his solo work has taken even further. If it sounds exhausting, nothing could be further from the truth. To be in conversation with Higgs, the former frontman of legendary post-hardcore band Lungfish, is to be frequently drawn down such rabbit holes – only to be dragged sideways at the last moment, a fresh excavation each time.
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"So you get a tool user’s manual, and then you gotta watch a movie about it before you can go use it, you know? It makes me uneasy," he tells me down the phone from Washington, DC. It is part-way through a discussion of this concept with Daniel Higgs that he turns his ire to CD-ROMs. The term essentially translates as ‘Odin’s horse’, though various hair-splitting etymologies delineate its importance as either a symbol of the gallows or a dread call to Ragnarök, the succession of natural disasters and grand battles that ultimately purge the planet of humanity, the better to purify its scorched earth once more. The yggdrasil is the great tree of Norse mythology that connects all of the Nine Worlds, the supreme unifier between heaven and ash and everything in between. Daniel Higgs plays Terraforma festival on Saturday 6 July
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