She Thinks She'll Soon Die and Never See Us Again

"Nuclear weapons deter a nuclear holocaust by threatening a nuclear holocaust, and if things go wrong then that is what you get: a nuclear holocaust...

At best the children seem strangely subdued or off-colour. Although they are aware of the keepers, they don’t want to look at them, they don’t want to catch their eye. They don’t want to think about them. For the keepers are a thousand feet tall, and covered in gelignite and razor blades, toting flamethrowers and machine guns, cleavers and skewers, and fizzling with rabies, anthrax, plague. Curiously enough, they are not looking at the children at all. With bleeding hellhound eyes, mouthing foul threats and shaking their fists, they are looking at each other. They want to take on someone their own size...

If they only knew it – no, if they only believed it – the children could simply ask the keepers to leave, but it doesn’t seem possible, does it? It seems – it seems unthinkable. A silence starts to fall across the lawn. The party has not been going for very long and must last until the end of time. Already the children are sick and feverish. They all feel sick and want to go home."

Martin Amis – Einstein’s Monsters

Fabpants Recommends: This post was typed whilst listening to Envelopes ‘Here Comes the Wind’.

This highly experimental album plays with elements of anti-folk, punk, electronica and pop, pop, pop. It says ‘I’m as indie as indie can be’. It’s part Swedish, part French.

If you read somewhere that Envelopes sound like The Pixies, press delete. Could it be that someone with a small CD collection once compared Envelopes to The Pixies and a plethora of lazy journalists followed suit? Where is my mind? Somewhere between ‘control c’ and ‘control v’. Envelopes are more like Helen Love than The Pixies, and that’s not really telling you anything. Listen and see.

Album Tasters:

Download MP3: Envelopes - Smoke In The Desert, Eating The Sand, Hide In The Grass (courtesy of nastypanda.com)




Download MP3: Envelopes – Party (courtesy of brooklynvegan.com)




Download MP3: Envelopes – Boat (courtesy of polaroidallaradio.it)




Did someone say Avril Lavigne? That was My Geek from the palace of bed. The amazing thing is that were they not on this album, I would hate some of the sounds that it offers. It’s so all over the place that every fucked up part of it works.