Tuesday, July 24, 2007




















Andrew Liles
Black Out
Beta-Lactam Ring 2007

01. Heimwee
02. Religion: A Valiant Attempt at Rationale
03. Sneeuwknisperen
04. Gormless

05. Do the Hooter: Vergeet-Mij-Niet
06. Glow-Worms Slowworms
07. Born to Bloom
08. Going Bald the Wrong Way
09. Boterbabbelaar
10. Gone Before Adolescence
11. Dagslapen Is Dagtruste
12. Drug Train
13. Tempo Doeloe
14. Hay Barn
15. Piggy Faced Long Snout
16. Iron Lung - Glass Bones [Version]
17. Vladimir Poezin
18. Learning to Fly
19. Fluisterruis
20. Tea Tree (Part One)
21. An Exclusive Kind of Loneliness
22. The Last Laugh

And now of course, we have been given Black Out. It has a nice "fatalistic" feel to it, more than any other in the «Vortex Vault». It sounds like a weekend of binge drinking, a physical symptom of unconsciousness. Nothing tangible, just a sense of impotence that you can't shake off. Can't drive it out - it's round the corner, or behind your back. Voices speak but are not heeded. Striving for things that lie remote. All efforts fruitless. Knob won't turn and catch won't lift. Mouth open but no word comes out. Is this the essence of a blackout? Having no power? Having no say?

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

great, another sleepless night ahead:)

Anonymous said...

Just curious: what are all those dutch words doing in the titles...? (I'm quite sure they're dutch and not belgian/flemish, especially in the light of 'Tempo Doeloe' - not in fact a dutch word at all but inextricably linked with its history - and 'Boterbabbelaar'...)

doru649 said...

beats me, i though those two (Freek and Miranda Kinkelaar, apparently) were speaking german :)