Current 93 - Crush, Kill, Destroy?

Black Ships is not your "play it in the car" album. As for the person who got bad vibes from what s/he'd heard from Dogs Blood Rising, it's *supposed* to give bad vibes. It's Tibet in his "evil" period, and probably the best album from that one.

Personally, I think the B-side of Looney Runes, Lucifer Over London, and the Inmost Light series are quite excellent.

Now, destroy... Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God is a tad weak. Not bad, but not half the caliber of, say, All the Pretty Little Horses, or Nature Unveiled.

Oh, and Hitler as Kalki is untouchable.

And the title track is not a Nazi anthem! It's an *anti*-Hitler song! Tibet's father fought in WWII, for heaven's sake! Why do people not get that?

absolutely. probably second only to as the world disappears among their live albums.

I meandered into Current 93 records via NWW, and I've reached the point where I certainly enjoy Current 93 more, although Stapleton still out-weirds Tibet, which is saying something.

I expect that the release of "Stapletone" will swing me in the other direction. Some time in 2055.

yeah! me too, but alot of other people seemed to hate it.

I was just looking at this yesterday, thinking I should read it again.

www.atpfestival.com

How handy! I'll pick it up while I'm over there.

Just got the Inmost Light trilogy reissue and it's fantastic. I knew some of the pieces from the "Calling for Vanished Faces" comp, but it's a stunning listen from start to end. This is some of the darkest material of their folk era. The background drones and ghostly chants are really unsettling.

The 1st and 3rd parts are 20 minute long but each one gets its own CD to preserve the listening order. Me lieks this.

I need to get that. But the new reissue of Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre is first in the queue for me. Sometimes I think it's the essential C93 album.

Yes, that one is by far my fave. Great great album.

Inmost Light 1 and 3 always left me pretty indifferent. Maybe I should give them a new spin.

try the first one when you're in a meditative mood. I really really like that one a lot.

I'm pretty sure when I get the Inmost Light reissue I'll seldom listen to chapters 1 and 3. I'm just excited to have All The Pretty... possibly sounding even better than it did. The remaster of Thunder Perfect Mind had luscious sound, so I expect goodness.

also: when the hell is the "England's Hidden Reverse" book gonna be repressed? $200 on eBay just won't do.

-- sleeve

Amazon sez: New Ed edition (8 Mar 2007)

I was just looking at this yesterday, thinking I should read it again.

-- aldo_cowpat

HELLO DAVID KEENAN I AM STILL WAITING FOR YOUR BOOK

Yeah, why hasn't this been reprinted? Isn't there supposed to be something about supply and demand? I'm not even a serious fan of the bands, but I'd be happy to shell out for a budget paperback, just out of curiosity. Same for the Krautrocksampler, warts'n'all.

Amazon claims it's being released in the US on October 30, 2007.

Why is all this shit always so fucking expensive? Even the tertiary crap like books about the expensive fucking records. Fuck you, collectors.

fuck you, labels.

OH YOU GUYS Lucifer Over London yes yes yes

It begins with a sampled "Paranoid" riff and trundles through "six six six it makes us a sick" and the bells, the bells, and it disappears with a chime bar and a soft guitar and it is something that you need to have.

the last track on that is seriously great great great

yeah that's a good one. I think Jnana actually has this in print right now on the Sixsixsix/Sicksicksick CD (which is a singles collection). Pretty sure Bevis Frond dude does guitar on this as well.

the matmos remix of "the beautiful dancing dust" = swoon!

Never my favorites, but hats off to'em anyway.

tell me more about this remix

HELLO DAVID KEENAN I AM STILL WAITING FOR YOUR BOOK

"They Return to Their Earth" is one of the most amazingly lovely songs I've ever heard.

I bought something from Tibet's Durto distribution once, and get regular email updates from the man. I'm not a C93 fan, but they're always highly entertaining reading. He's playing in Europe soon with avant-metal dudes Om, Aethenor and . . Rickie Lee Jones.

yeah, so, uh, Rickie Lee Jones...

As many of you will have seen, Rickie Lee Jones has been unable to appear at the C93 shows. Both I and Rickie Lee want to point out this happened due to bad luck and unforeseen problems. We remain good friends and, although sadly this time the energy was against us, we are both determined to reschedule our working together as soon as we can.

I haven't really kept up on this band lately but I would love to hear whatever they do together.

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I just found and picked up Imperium and Earth Covers Earth -- a quick Allmusic search says these are late '80s recordings. Any good?

imperium is great! one of their better pre-thunder perfect mind releases. ECE i don't remember as well, i think it's alright though.

new album is pretty cool

Imperium is awesome but also their bleakest. Quite hard to sit through i find

I really want the new album to be great.

the new stuff they played in london last year sounded very nice. what an amazing night that was...david tibet, andrew w.k., baby dee, matt sweeney, antony, marc almond, alex nielsen, andrew lilles and some crazy italian soprano guy singing too. bill fay was there but sadly didn't sing anything, slightly irritating considering he gave into Wilco's demands and sang a song at one of their shows a year or so before. anyway, looking forward to the new one too.

For those who've ordered C93 stuff online -- what's the difference between ordering the same albums (say, Dogs Blood Rising or The Inmost Light) from the Durtro store or the Jnana store??? Anything?

what's the new album?

I'm in doubt about the new one (Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain). It sounds so 'harsh', in comparison to his last albums. I can't get used to the distorted sound, would've much more preferred a 'Pretty Horses' or 'Thunder Perfect Mind' sound. On the other hand it is intruiging. I just haven't found a mood yet to appreciate it. It's lacks eerieness, to my liking.

i re-listened to imperium for the first time in a while because of the revive - man there's some tasty-weird stuff on there. it's like miserabilist cosmic music.

"as real as rainbows" isn't harsh at all, gerard, and might be an entry point

but i hear what you're saying. stuff like "invocation of almost" is way up there among their heaviest songs

has had

Nice! The anxiety of missing C93 is palpable, trust me. Glad you get to go!

sleeve: treat yourself! wkiw

lol so not gonna happen but <3

(also, I think it's sold out now!)

New album in March 2022 : https://www.davidtibet.com/blogs/news/c93-if-a-city-is-set-upon-a-hill

Wasn't there supposed to be a Thomas Ligotti collabo album as well sometime this year? Pushed back?

His release statements are almost as good as the albums

Yayyyy something to look forward to

I finally read England’s Hidden Reverse a few months ago so I am extra psyched

Praying that the Brooklyn show (postponed to Halloween 2022) is able to happen

Xp yeah he keeps getting better and funnier on the PR/comm front. Reads like an apocalyptic Hipster Runoff at this point. Psyched.

through my endless readings within the Akkadian Omen series šumma ālu ina mēlê šakin (“If A City Is Set Upon A Height”), my endless obsession with the story of Cain Killing Abel (Genesis IV: 8), and my endless rewatching of the same ten supernatural films.

I feel like we could probably guess half of these but come on david michael give us yr list

otm

lol yes

I'd buy some of the photographs or paintings if they weren't so expensive :(

oh and the book downloads are free (including a 561 page lyrics book) : https://www.davidtibet.com/collections/books

and? anyone get the album yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4RzoH32Lso

Not bad. Has David T. taken singing classes?

the CD is on its way because I thought it wasn't going to be on bandcamp - it's not on current931.bandcamp.com ,
but now I find it at current93hom.bandcamp.com - anyway, a physical copy doesn't hurt :-)

if together we fall into forever

great revive

i ate the graveyard whole

Just saw them in Oslo. Absolutely glorious. Magnificent setlist, picked from their whole career. Tibet is such a sweet guy at this point. Finished off with an anecdote on being a little kid watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, before they did a beautiful Hushabye Mountain (which they did the last time I saw them as well. Alasdair Roberts has been in the band for a good while now.

Have been immersed in the "The Long Shadows Fall" boxset for the past few weeks - really the greatest thing they've done in years... endless burrowing/floating obsessive atmospheres, truly haunting... for a long time I felt that Liles was a poor substitute for Stapleton but he's really doing stellar work on the recent C93 things. The latest one "Sketches of My Nightmares and Dreams Occurring" just arrived yesterday, waiting until the weekend to dive in.