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I do not remember that but I do remember how much metal dudes universally hated Liturgy for the unfamiliar, that's the guy who got out of college and devoted a black metal band to Ralph Waldo Emerson et al the vibe is very, what if a bunch of indie dorks had a black metal band instead of yr...

American indie is more consistent but somehow, even less interesting than British indie so it rarely plumbs the truly naff depths of Shitbrit but equally it is never, ever, as a rule, interesting, in any capacity just an endless soundtrack of relatively competent chamber pop and/or uninspired...

I got you luke pure bad vibes in the best post-Stooges Detroit heavy rock proto-punk tradition

this is a very good French drone thing - essentially the motorik drone element of Velvet Underground pursued as an end in itself using a hurdy-gurdy - like the sitar, a perfectly made drone instrument - instead of guitar and Cale's viola

DJ Screw, also whereas heaviness often crushes you, Screw is like being enfolded in an infinitely deep abyss of cotton gauze the weight of the ocean overhead

one thing that I do agree with that people have posted is Les Rallizes Desnudes a case where heaviness is achieved primarily feedback - anchored on melody - rather than bass weight the squalling noise freakout at 11 minutes

Godflesh copped the title "Like Rats" from a line of a song on No Trend's LP (which is also very good), btw true noise rock pantheon lineage

this kind of follows in the same vein the kings of 80s hardcore-adjacent 1st gen noise rock misanthropy and nihilist bad vibes a case is inseparable from the lyrics and their vocal delivery among other things it's kind of the logical conclusion of PIL's declaration of death disco what you...

in fact the singer says it is about childhood in a live version on one of their other records or I think that's what he's saying, I've never been able to quite make it out, but it also tracks with the lyrics this live version also kills it. last song.

I was going to post this actually, as an example of something that is heavy without meeting some traditional hallmarks of heaviness it's not only that the bassline is cavernous, it's also that they just hammer that one riff, the anguished razor throat gargle shrieking that whole 7" is fucking...

it seems quite difficult to be heavy and intense at the same time - there is usually some kind of tradeoff of one for the other but heaviness is also a subset of intensity, so they have a complicated relationship which isn't fully clear to me

I guess I'm obligated to respond to this you do confuse intensity (and recording quality) with heaviness in that your definition of heaviness seems to be something like "overwhelmed by sound" without any limit on what type of sound feedback, great explosions of notes, violent tempo changes...

that Nibali descent

didn't know he was world junior TT champ, that bodes well and yeah his climbing is good enough to make it worth trying out I just think you're trading, same as the previous riders, a virtually guaranteed Classics career for a very uncertain GC career right now he's a serious contender in...

that was always kind of an overblown charge - power-meter robots - against Sky. some truth in it, just overblown. Froome in particular is not so secretly kind of a maniac supercomptetitor underneath that totally placid exterior - skip to 1:18:30 or so and famously, his incredible Giro raid

I think the power meter vs instinct is a completely false dichotomy btw it's a subset of the stats vs feeling argument across sports over the last ~20 years as advanced statistical analysis and optimization have proliferated the real answer is and has always has been that the best approach is...

he is truly great and that was maybe the 2nd-best descent I've ever watched, after Nibali in Lombardia 2015 I suspect GC is a bit much. one week races possibly, idk he's quite got the climbing/recovery that makes a difference between top 10 and GC contender. not sure how his time trial is...

back on the current race, losing your two top domestiques - Roglic and Kruijswijk - on the same day (and crashing) is about as bad as it gets basically puts the remaining UAE and JV teams roughly on par which you'd think is advantage Pogacar but idk I think Vingegaard - presuming he isn't too...

not saying this includes you tbc. and I do enjoy attacking and appreciate panache, just dislike the way some people make a cult of it, especially as the history of dominant GC riders is basically the history of top TTists who can climb - Anquetil, Indurain, Froome, etc - rather than...

@jenks I'd be happy to see Bardet or Pinot grab a stage. that part of cycling fandom that romanticizes panache above all else - i.e. that would rather lose with style than win without - does irritate me sometimes, but I'm never against the riders, especially such a deserving pair. it's not...