A rare Vancouver snow storm has the Senior Staff separated in meatspace, but that doesn’t stop the podcastin’. Records turning twenty this year are on the table, with In Strict Confidence’s Love Kills! and The Echoing Green’s Supernova. There’s also plenty of talk about the major North American tour announcements from both Ministry and Einsturzende Neubauten on this week’s episode of the Internet’s longest running vegan Canadian wrestling-friendly industrial music podcast. You can rate and subscribe on iTunes, Google Play Music, or download directly or stream from Spotify or the widget down below.
ISC’s Love Kills was a magical record. I remember picking it up circa 2001 at a record store in Camden Town in London. I played the shit out it on my discman traveling through Europe and to the States that summer. Amazing memories, I remember it came out around the same time as Welcome to Earth, United States of Mind and in the midst of the future pop era. So, somehow, it never became as popular. To me, though, it quickly became one of my favorite albums of all times, Amazing atmosphere. Kill your shadow, The truth inside of me, Stern…Zauberschloss, if you understand it, is basically a fairy tale spoken/yelled over some electro-industrial synth riffs. It’s beautiful. Love the instrumentals. I disagree with the statement that the album doesn’t work as whole. To me it absolutely does. It is dark and haunting. I never got in to their later records that much. The atmosphere was gone. Mistrust the angels had some of those elements I cherished but anything after that was verify lackluster for me.
Don’t forget Silent Memorial too. Holy (Antje Schulz!!!!) is by far my favorite album by ISC- but Love Kills! is great and works really well as a complete album.
Please note the iTunes podcast cuts off around 40 minutes – right after Yesterday’s Taking Over.