I always return my Gram’s phone calls and do as she asks right away, she’s 90 and if she died before I could respond I’d feel horrible. I’ve been living like this for the last 6 years.
It’s no coincidence that Le Rev is a Los Angeles band. With its theatrical lyrics and guttural guitar riffs, Le Rev dances a fine line between Hollywood histrionics and indie eastside aesthetics.
As lead singer, C.C. Sheffield can downshift from whisper to scream in a drumbeat, alternately channeling personas as varied as a French chanteuse, larger-than-life diva and little girl lost to belt out emotionally-charged stories over Nico Chiotellis’s anthemic/angular guitar work. Equal parts heartbreak and pop hooks, Lev Rev’s studio debut “Tales of Running Away” is a bloody valentine with introspective lovelorn lyrics pitted against a blaring sonic soundscape.
You see, I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will, of course, protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.
DarkDriveClinic is the new project from producer John Fryer and singer Rebecca Coseboom.
John Fryer has virtually defined several genres with his production work; like the ethereal ambient Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil of 4AD, the industrial rock sound of Nine Inch Nails, Stabbing Westward and Gravity Kills, the modern day sound of Gloom Pops, HIM, and Lacrimas Profundere, and has dipped into Bone Yard Blues with Ledfoot. Never confining himself to one style, John has:
- Produced, engineered and mixed The Schools Spellemannspris’ Norwegian Grammy-nominated album “Espionage”
- Mixed the US breakthrough album for Jesus Jones, “Doubt”
- Produced Cradle of Filth’s “Midian” Album, HIM & Nine Inch Nails’ multi-platinum selling albums
- Mixed or remixed White Zombie, A-Ha, Anthrax, Sarah McLachlan and Ashbruy Heights amongst many others.
John’s newest project, DarkDriveClinic, is a collaboration between John and singer Rebecca Coseboom. Rebecca is also a member of Stripmall Architecture, and has been called “a female front woman with an incredible voice” (CMJ). “Her voice flutters around your head like a silky scarf and the whole is like a sonic manifestation of a romantic swoon…” (The Stranger, Seattle).
DarkDriveClinic is currently recording their debut album of eclectic dark alternative music, which is due out in 2011.
Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.
Film clip for the Gotye song Eyes Wide Open, directed by Brendan Cook at PictureDRIFT, featuring character design and animation by Darcy Prendergast at DeePee Studios, and design and animation by Jeremy Bianco, Darryn Rogers and Brendan Cook.
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an autarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greennes of a leaf; but as they for older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtle erode their joie de vivre, their idealism — and their assumption of immortallity.
As a child matures, he sees death and pain everywhere about him, and beings to lose faith in the ultumate goodness of man. But if he’s reasonably strong — and lucky — he can emerge from this twillight of the soul into a rebirth of life’s élan. Both because of and in spite of his awareness of the meaninglessness of life, he can forge a fresh sense of purpose and affiramtion. He may not recapture the same pure sense of wonder he was born with, but he can shape something far more enduring and sustaining.
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment.
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
