Astrid Monroe - She Is Really Me

Gnod – Mirror
(Launch090)

As 2016 dawns , it’s a fool who predicts the next move of Gnod, seemingly less a musical collec-tive and more a psychic force fuelled by maverick spirit and fearsome willpower. 

Their mind-frying 2015 triple-album ‘Infinity Machines’ stood proud as a towering work of experi-mental expansion, acidic invective and nihilistic abrasion.Yet as an outfit whose restlessly uncom-promising nature is matched only by their unflinching anti-establishment drive, Gnod set about cre-ating a diametrically opposed aesthetic. 

Just as dramatically as their restless disposition morphed their sound to a binary-driven direction for their last work, now Gnod were to strip their electronic setup to a vicious, viscous attack, as redolent of the primal punishment of early Swans as the angular clangour of prime Public Image Ltd, yet shot through with a mercurial power and fiery intensity that could come from no-one else. The opening title-cut of ‘Mirror’ seethes with lithe energy and dubbed-out vitality, whilst elsewhere the eighteen-minute closing track ‘Sodom & Gomorrah’ may be the most dystopian piece of music the band have yet created; a harrowing yet fiercely compelling colossus of bleak abjection. 

“The tracks were pretty much written on the road in May 2015” elaborates Gnod’s Paddy Shine. “The final versions of the tracks on the album are a reaction to the results of the re-cent UK election and also some shit that was happening to us and our friends during that period. Lyrically it deals with mental health issues and how things like social media are a vehicle for our split personalities and egos - that and being under the thumb of forces and power structures we can't really fully understand, or even if we understand them we feel helpless to change the situation. This album won't change the situation or start any revolu-tions but it felt good for us to write some music to let the rage out"

Reflecting and refracting the uncertainty of a darkening era, ‘Mirror’ is a work of bold rein-vention and raw renewal, sculpting chaos and discord into a formidable statement of in-tent. Only one thing is certain - wherever Gnod choose to go next, their ire and inspiration blaze as brightly as ever.

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01 GNOD - The Mirror

The Somnambulist's Tale (edit 1)

The Somnambulist's Tale (edit 2)

Vatican

Gaseous FuCk - last morning of suicidal bombers

Astrid Monroe Wosp 2007

Astrid Monroe, Genesis P-Orridge -- I Want To Go

When I was young, there were two reasons for me to look in a mirror.

One was to see if my parting was straight.

The second reason was to see if my tie was straight.

Now I grown up, and this is a third reason...

Genesis P_ Orridge & Astrid Monroe ♠ When I Was Young

Genesis P_Orridge & Astrid Monroe ♠ Possession

ГАЗОВАЯ ЕБЛЯ - SCHLAF AUF MIR!

ГАЗОВАЯ ЕБЛЯ - DAS IST BERLIN

Genesis P-Orridge & Astrid Monroe - the truth

The original version from Bible of Dreams first released in June 1997. Played live many times with Mabi the star on the congas. I first met Mabi in Joberg in 1995.

Conga Fury

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