NEW SWALLOW THE SUN TRACK MAKES ME GET ALL PHILOSOPHICAL ABOUT THE MEANING OF THE WORD “NOW”
Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 11:00am by Vince Neilstein
Axl is the sole inhabitant of the Mansion today, but I wrote up a few posts for him ahead of time so he doesn’t have to rely on content from the Monkeys, who, to be honest, have been turning in a shoddy performance lately.
Today I am en route to a wedding in Rochester, NY. Gag. Not the wedding… the wedding will be a swell, fancy affair. The city… yuck. Weather.com tells me lows are going to be at or near freezing with snow showers, while TheFuckingWeather.com tells me simply “It’s Fucking Cold.” Thanks. FUCK.
But it’s perfect weather for Swallow the Sun music, which always hits that dark, gloomy spot for me when the weather turns south (north?). I’m listening to the new track “These Woods Breathe Evil” from their forthcoming record New Moon (out November 10th in the U.S.). Or, I was listening to it yesterday when I wrote this… but I may be listening to it now… and if I hadn’t mentioned the whole Rochester thing you would’ve just assumed I was actually listening to it now. When is “now” anyway? Is it when I’m writing the post, when I hit “publish” (by which time the song might actually be over) or when you read these words? Or neither? Does it matter? Does anything matter? Woah. Meta.
Stop intellectualizing and go enjoy the new Swallow the Sun track, you sillies.
-VN
lol @ rochester – I lived there for 6 years, I know exactly what you mean
Be honest with us… they named their new album ‘New Moon’ to draw in all the teenage girls excited about the new Twilight movie, didn’t they?
I was thinking the same thing. I’ve never listened to this band’s music but now I don’t even want to.
Their last release was called ‘Plague Of Butterflies’. Maybe they’re just down with weird album titles these days.
I picked up on them with ‘Hope’ though, that was a hell of a cd.
They are a band worth listening to.
Also worth checking out is Barren Earth, a new band that Mikko from Swallow the Sun is in. Reviewed their first EP over here: http://atanamar.blogspot.com/2009/10/barren-earth-our-twilight-ep-peaceville.html
pretty excited for a new album from these guys. New song sounds like where Hope left off.
Weird, my girlfriend is also enroute to a wedding in rochester today.
Cool website there. The Fucking Weather. Sweet!