Time to look at my #top20 music artists from #Year2024 based on #lastfm:

1) #FutureFunkSquad
2) #JeanMichelJarre
3) #PhilWestern
4) #Front242
5) #Download
6) #MrLif
7) #Ketvector
8) #Aavikko
9) #SkinnyPuppy
10) #FrontLineAssembly
11) #Snog
12) #MeatBeatManifesto
13) #PublicEnemy
14) #GazelleTwin
15) #ArnaudRebotini
16) #AmonTobin
17) #Ulver
18) #Ginormous
19) #Liars
20) #HowToDestroyAngels
20) #KONE

Do you share any of these in your own Top 20?

I had so much fun spinning spooky tunes and chilling with some cool cats (and humans) at #MEowLounge in #WestbrookMaine tonight. Here is my setlist.

1. You, the Night and Music - #TonesOnTail
2. Through This Collapse - #Zanias
3. Hidden Hand - #VoidVision
4. Here and Now - #AndroidLust
5. Too late, all gone - #HowToDestroyAngels (with #TrentReznor)
6. Haunted Symbols - #ForeverGrey
7. Wax and Wane - #CocteauTwins
8. Control - #PleasureSymbols
9. Going Backwards - #DepecheMode
10. Witches - #SwitchbladeSymphony
11. A Failure - #Lycia
12. Face the Fire - #BoyHarsher
13. Spellbound - #Siouxsie & The Banshees
14. Medusa - #ClanOfXymox
15. Is Everything Real? - #TheFrozenAutumn
16. If Love Is Just a Word - #BleibModern
17. Come Feel - #AllYourSisters
18. Sleep - #SecondStill
19. The Last Thing - #LebanonHanover

Link to Spotify version:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5FBwxEQi3DakJqq95b8WRz?si=92503680f9144461

I’ve really tried to like #WelcomeOblivion by #HowToDestroyAngels (a side project of #TrentReznor and his wife #MariqueenMaandig) but it just consistently doesn’t work. I realise it’s perhaps intended to be ‘sensual’. However, as with many supposedly sensual records, it ends up plain dull. So careful and calculated that it is unable to convey any real emotion. The singing is just there, without wrapping me in a voice or a world.

Weirdly the bonus tracks on the iTunes version are much better!

"All these little strings
Holding us together
All these precious things
Can't make them last

All these little strings
Keep holding us together
All these precious things
Make them last forever"

“Sometimes the hate in me is keeping me alive”

https://youtu.be/Oq3pDuJeMqQ?si=8m7aSsQQ8ARaht_1

#NowPlaying #Music #Industrial #HowToDestroyAngels #TrentReznor

How To Destroy Angels - The Space in Between

https://youtu.be/gG7vT7BbpRk?si=bxmkRjdu6Ocj0eym

#NowListening #HowToDestroyAngels - The Loop Closes

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my all-time favorite movies, and I'm no longer embarrassed to declare that publicly.

Wherever You Go, There You Are Not!

In Lacanian parlance, we call this "The Return of the Real."

I've been listening to #WelcomeOblivion by #TrentReznor's #HowToDestroyAngels (named after an album by #Coil) and I'm struggling to decide whether it's more or less intriguing than #NIN's latest material.

The tone is far more interesting, but somehow vocally would need a little more oomph, especially from #Mariqueen. A little more drama. By that I don't necessarily mean Reznorish screaming, but just a bit more spice. See #DieForm #VoltaicControlSystem for a wonderful example, or #MIA.