Song of the Day: The Angels Light - Praise Your Name

 Right now I am reading The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich and Nova Express by William S. Burroughs which I hope to finish before school starts. I will be posting reviews of both right when I am finished.

Now right now this was the song of the day for me: Angels of Light's "Praise Your Name."

Praise Your Name is probably my favorite song due to the dissonant violin coming in and out reach with the icy xylophone and mournful piano. The lyrics are dark and drenched in apocalyptic imagery concerning the worship of some lover. The chorus' choir behind the yelping of Michael Gira sounds all so glorious.

I gained an emotional attachment to this song after listening it everyday, for three weeks last year after feeling trapped in my small dorm room. In fact, Gira was pretty hot on Bryan's and mine playlist for majority of our first year at CSUN.

Where are you wounded girls
With bruised faces and blackened eyes
Break open your glass doors
Welcome the whirling debris
Carve your name there
In the marble and concrete

Michael Gira is a Genius

Swans are maybe the greatest bands to ever exist. They have basically changed all of No Wave with their first release, "Filth" and single-handedly influenced post-rock with their perfect album "Soundtracks for the Blind" and they are even going to continue their deeply disturbing art next year with the album "The Seer" , which I am eager to listen to ,but Swans' front-man and songwriter, Michael Gira is as much as a enigma as art.
Recently I bought his very rare compilation of short stories called the Consumer. The cover shows a tunnel leading to a mysterious darkness , which basically describes the few stories I have read perfectly. There is no light at the end of the tunnel in any of their songs or projects. Gira seems to be devoid of any emotion except extreme sadness and extreme anger. But ,boy was I wrong. Here is a good interview that shows the artist that is Michael Gira. 

To plug Michael Gira more as the genius he truly is here is a great song from his Experimental Folk side project, The Angels of Light.