The more I look the more I see / The more I feel a sense of urgency
Here are six albums all released years (and in most cases decades) ago but seem to have been recorded specifically for the state the world is in today.
Links go to Spotify page for each album.
South of Heaven, Slayer
Chaos rampant / An age of distrust / Confrontations / Impulsive habitat
Damaged, Black Flag
We sit glued to the TV set all night / And every night / Why go into the outside world at all? / It’s such a fright
Magnolia Electric Co, Songs: Ohia
It’s been hard doing anything / Winter stuck around so long / I kept trying anyhow and I’m still trying now / Just to keep working
Diamond Dogs, David Bowie
In the year of the scavenger, the season of the bitch / Sashay on the boardwalk, scurry to the ditch / Just another future song, lonely little kitsch / (There’s gonna be sorrow) try and wake up tomorrow
What’s Going On, Marvin Gaye
Brother, brother, brother / There’s far too many of you dying / You know we’ve got to find a way / To bring some loving here today
Black Celebration, Depeche Mode
Let’s have a black celebration to celebrate the fact that we’ve seen the back of another black day
