She has been published locally and in the Places of Poetry anthology, Poetry for Mental Health and is in the Lancaster Litfest Poetry Mosaic. She is a stroke survivor and is physically challenged but it does not stop her from writing.Īs one attempts to make sense of the horrors of war that the global media flashes across screens and newsprint, day and night 24/7, one can feel a numbing sensation closing down one’s ability to respond, as an organic human being should respond. It’s today and tomorrow and all their days to come.īoakesey is a former teacher, who lives on the Isle of Man and is the current (IXth) Manx Bard. Look at how their memories haunt their eyes. Living veterans of conflicts far and near Look around at those with us today and see Shitgaze also has some crossover with and connection to current Post-Punk Goth and Deathrock.You’ll read of local folk who signed up forĪ bit of adventure, perhaps to learn a trade. No Age's second album, Nouns, was also released to much critical fanfare and success, bringing further attention to the emerging new sound. Several other similar sounding bands, such as Guinea Worms, Blank Dogs, and Tyvek, released various 7" singles and EPs. Portland, Oregon's Eat Skull and Calgary, Alberta's Women both released albums, as did Times New Viking yet again. Also that year, the aforementioned Psychedelic Horseshit released their own debut album, and Times New Viking released their sophomore effort, Present the Paisley Reich, which was well received by critics.īy 2008, numerous rock and roll bands in North America were performing, recording, and releasing music in the shitgaze genre. By the end of the year, other shitgaze bands began emerging, notably Los Angeles' No Age, who were quickly signed to Sub Pop Records and issued their debut album in 2007. By 2005, the city had birthed two of the first and most important bands of the new sound: Times New Viking and Psychedelic Horseshit, with the former releasing its debut album that same year. The genre has its roots in the mid-2000s garage rock revival and lo-fi rock scenes, with an apparent nexus in Columbus, Ohio. In other words, according to San Diego CityBeat, "it sounds shitty". The sobriquet "shitgaze" is an amalgamation of the name of another indie rock genre, shoegaze, of which shitgaze shares some common elements, and the word "shit", presumably because shitgaze recordings and performances regularly "push the needle in the red", i.e., they stretch the limits of their amplifiers to produce distorted sounds. The term "shitgaze" was first said by Kevin Failure of Pink Reason in jest to describe the sound of Psychedelic Horseshit's album Magic Flowers Droned. The emphasis of the music is usually on the treble end of the musical scale at the sacrifice of lower-end sounds, such as those emanating from bass guitars. Shitgaze is a buzzword created by music journalists to describe a genre of music characterized by the use of musical instruments found in traditional rock and roll-guitars, drums, and keyboards-but recorded and played live in such an abrasive manner as to distort recordings and push amplifiers to their sonic limits.
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