Sinister: There's a portrait.

[Ian Watson]

The album before that is even better. Yesterday was dramatic, today is OK.
Something like that anyway. Fewer vocals, more electronics, but there are
some moments of real beauty on it. One of those rare records where you
listen and just go - wow, how do they do that? In the same vague genre, I
also like FS Bluum (almost certainly the wrong spelling) and Ulrich Snauss
(see before), which to me sounds a bit like the Field Mice. Were they one
German who made instrumental electronica. What else like that should I be
looking out for? I don't quite connect with Boards Of Canada for some odd
reason. 

x

ps - latest Icelandic great thing for me is Kippi Kananus (again, almost
certainly spelt wrong). Not quite as melodic as Mum, but similar spirit.



> From: "Sam Walton" <samwaltonyeah at xxx.com>
> Reply-To: "Sam Walton" <samwaltonyeah at hotmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 16:19:56 +0000
> To: sinister at missprint.org
> Subject: Sinister: There's a portrait.
> 
> Hello Sinister.
> 
> I’ve been quiet of late. I would say I’ve had writer’s block, but that would
> involve me being classified as a writer. I’ve just had *block*. A few weeks
> ago, Mark Casarotto asked for some of the list veterans to start posting
> again. I’m sure he wasn’t thinking of me, but I thought I’d try and write a
> little something anyway. After all, I did recently celebrate my own personal
> 3rd Sinibirthday, so what the heck.
> 
> ///AUTUMN\\\
> I tend to find that B&S are far more of an end of winter/beginning of spring
> kinda band. It’s more or less the same kind of weather, but when the ground
> is crunchy beneath your feet in late February, there’s the anticipation of
> summer just around the corner, and that seems to suit. The Delgados (“The
> Great Eastern” and “Hate”) do autumn quite well, as do Lambchop
> (particularly “Is A Woman); it’s all the warm melancholic orchestration and
> wistful lyrics that do it for me. Sorry.
> 
> ///FEELINGS\\\
> If there’s one thing that autumn does do to me, it makes me feel strange. I
> can’t put my finger on it, but I always feel a little stressed and highly
> strung, as if I’m being watched and assessed and prodded and poked and
> checked for authenticity. I think it could be some sort of emotional hang-up
> related to autumn always marking the beginning of the school year, and
> anxiety about that. But I don’t really know. It’s just a seasonal thing
> though.
> 
> ///THE YORK SINISTER MASSIVE RETURNS\\\
> After more than a substantial absence from general list conversation, the
> start of term has prompted me to mention the burgeoning YSM. Last night, at
> the York University Indie Society (http://www.indiesociety.co.uk) club
> night, I had the pleasure to bump into James Thorniley, of this parish. He
> is now a York student, which takes the total number of people associated
> with York University and with Sinister nearly into double figures. C’mon
> kids – York Uni is *obviously* the place to be.
> 
> York sinipicnic details to be announced very soon.
> 
> ///MÚM\\\
> There was talk on the list a while back about the Múm LP, “Finally We Are No
> One”. Half of Múm are on the front cover to Fishyclap. The other half
> aren’t. I bought it the other day, and for what it’s worth, I think it’s a
> great record. In true lazy, wannabe journo style, think Bjork meets Boards
> of Canada in the rusty shack in Montreal where Godspeed! record their
> albums, and you might be there. It’s a great record.
> 
> Love,
> 
> Asm.x
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ================================
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> he certainly has a good vocabulary"
> - Holden Caulfield
> 
> "He's not the Messiah, he's a very
> naughty boy"
> - Mary Cohen
> 
> 
> 
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