{"id":102202,"date":"2020-06-02T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=102202"},"modified":"2020-06-01T20:10:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T01:10:20","slug":"100-support-iron-goddess-of-mercy-compels-you-to-buy-buy-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/100-support-iron-goddess-of-mercy-compels-you-to-buy-buy-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"100% Support &#8211; Iron Goddess of Mercy Compels You to Buy, Buy, Buy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><em>On June 5th, Bandcamp will once again waive their percentage of proceeds, so that 100% of the money goes directly to the artists. We\u2019ll be spending the week highlighting some releases that you might want to throw money at to help the creators through these shittiest of times.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/laudare-cover-e1590960074159.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-102204\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/laudare-cover.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Laudare \u2013 <em>Have Heart, Waste Flesh<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Release Date: March 16, 2020<br \/>\nMost Violent Poem: \u201cExodus the Wayward\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 420px; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2884665770\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=239575225\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/laudare.bandcamp.com\/album\/have-heart-waste-flesh\">Have Heart, Waste Flesh by Laudare<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I love music that makes me feel poetic. Walking around listening to <em>Have Heart, Waste Flesh<\/em> will inevitably lead one to take notice of the world, searching for the grace in it all.<em> Look at the way that tree has fallen over that gravestone, balancing astride the grave like Godot. I just felt the imperceptibility of the instantaneous and eternal relief of a slight breeze brushing away the humid sweat of my closed eyelids. That car with the Confederate Flag license plate would look so divine turned upside down and aflame.<\/em> Laudare inspires the lyrical <em>flane\u00fbr <\/em>to such lofty heights as these.<\/p>\n<p>On their lengthy three-song EP, <strong>Laudare<\/strong> blends the punk-tattered outbursts of turn-of-the-century Virginia screamo with the sprawling atmosphere of contemporary European post-skramz. A tinge of black metal glints out from some of the faster moments of the album, but just when you think you\u2019ve caught a glimpse, Laudare drops you into a world of eerie emo melodies and raggedly haunting clean guitar riffs that both flourish and languish. Repeated listens will not diminish the surprising effect of Laudare\u2019s clever songwriting and their flair for the dramatic. How else could they do justice to such a Bandcamp tag as \u201cViolent Poetry\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ThouBody-COver-e1590960198481.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-102205\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ThouBody-COver.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thou &amp; The Body \u2013 Everyday, Things are Getting Worse<br \/>\n<\/strong>Release Date: April 25, 2020 (Vinyl versions released in 2019)<br \/>\nCoolest Cover Song: \u201cWell Fed Fuck\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 420px; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=17851128\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1433657553\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/thou.bandcamp.com\/album\/everyday-things-are-getting-worse\">Everyday, Things Are Getting Worse by Thou &amp; The Body<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Though I am not entirely sure that reviewing a collaboration from two such well-known acts is entirely in keeping with the spirit of ToH\u2019s &#8220;100% Support&#8221; articles, this recording of <strong>ThouBody<\/strong>\u2019s 2018 Roadburn set deserves inclusion. And this coming from a Goddess who rarely bothers with live albums! I do bother, however, with albums the proceeds of which are given to charities, and all proceeds from the sale of this album will go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricgirls.org\/\">www.electricgirls.org<\/a>. That\u2019s just part of my Aquarius nature.<\/p>\n<p>I was in a record store in Gainesville, FL, sometime in 2015 when I found out Thou had collaborated with The Body to produce <em>Released from Love <\/em>(2014) and <em>You, Whom I Have Always Hated <\/em>(2015). Both bands have a habit of releasing material without warning or fanfare, so it\u2019s fitting I was so surprised to find out <em>in a real life record store that new records existed <\/em>instead of from The World Wide Web. Nevertheless, my friend, who was clerking at the shop at the time, thought it was funny I hadn\u2019t heard about them yet. Whatever, Sean!<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Everyday, Things are Getting Worse <\/em>is both a reminder that those two collaborations should not be lost amidst either band\u2019s extensive <em>oeuvre<\/em> and a record that can and does stand on its own merit. \u201cBeyond the Realm of Dreams\u2026\u201d and \u201cThe Devils of Trust Steal the Souls of the Free,\u201d in particular, sound as massive live as they do on <em>You, Whom I Have Always Hated<\/em>, a credit to the bands and Roadburn\u2019s top-flight sound engineers, while the two covers alone are worth the price of admission. Thou has a habit of making cover songs seem <em>obvious<\/em>, and we can now add Born Against\u2019s \u201cWell Fed Fuck\u201d and Shellac\u2019s \u201cA Prayer to God\u201d to the list of songs that were always already obvious for Thou to cover.<\/p>\n<p>Buy the album, support Electric Girls, and get fuckin\u2019 diaphanous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/healingsounds-cover-e1590960298384.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-102206\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/healingsounds-cover.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Various Artists \u2013 <em>Healing Sounds II: A Compilation for Those in Need<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Release Date: April 10, 2020<br \/>\nMost Healing Sound: \u201cAt Peace With All That Is\u201d (James Bernard)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 420px; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3244834014\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=2767209940\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/pitp.bandcamp.com\/album\/healing-sounds-ii-a-compilation-for-those-in-need\">Healing Sounds II: A compilation for those in need by Various Artists<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can only listen to <strong>Joanna Brouk<\/strong> so many times until you need a new infusion of ambient music to repair your frayed nerves, keep your hands from shaking, or slow your heartbeat to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XuDZNSjAJBk\">Mr. Burns\u2019<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WpNgjwwNlOA\">Professor Farnsworth\u2019s<\/a> pace. You can also only strike gold when Bandcamp tag-diving once in a <strong>Polar Moon<\/strong>. Fortunately, Past Inside the Present presented to me this past April some manna from <strong>Harold Budd<\/strong> heaven. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019d do without all the various quantum gemeralds PITP has to offer, and none are quite as priceless as <em>Healing Sounds II<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A crass and craven individual would foist a track-by-track review of a 49-song compilation upon their esteemed readers, but I am no such person. I have difficulty even thinking about the tracks as discrete units, rather hitting play either at the beginning or at random moments throughout as if the 278-minute affair was all one cohesive disc of otic klonopin to broken into whatever size dose seems appropriate for that day.\u00a0<em>Healing Sounds II\u00a0<\/em>exudes a pacifying effulgence suitable for yoga, for reading, for walking (while wearing a mask), for sleeping, or for drifting out of yourself.<\/p>\n<p>On May 1, Past Inside the Present reduced the price of their entire digital discography to something like $25. It\u2019s possible they do something like that again on June 5. If they do so again, make sure to purchase <em>Healing Sounds II <\/em>prior to and separately from the discography, as all proceeds from this compilation go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingamerica.org\/\">Feeding America<\/a>. Also, someone please buy me the limited edition 4-disc boxset. Or, you know, buy it for someone else who you think would benefit from it. Or, better yet, ask me, and I\u2019ll buy it for you. (Seriously, y&#8217;all. I&#8217;ll buy someone a copy of that boxset if there&#8217;s a request.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/awenden-cover-e1590960380165.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-102207\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/awenden-cover.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Awenden \u2013 <em>Golden Hour<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Release Date: March 13, 2020<br \/>\nMost Righteous Anti-Fascist Weapon: \u201cWeapons of War \/ Bury \u2018Em\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 420px; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1094866723\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=614038742\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/awenden.bandcamp.com\/album\/golden-hour\">Golden Hour by Awenden<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the joys of my 30s has been the unexpected return of my teen angst. I\u2019m just a furious teenager all the time all over again! While I spent much of my 20s wallowing in apathy or desperately attempting to intellectualize my feelings, the first few years of my 30s have been marked be a delightful teenage ire. Everything is bad and everyone, including me, is stupid. I was right then, and I\u2019m right again. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xSTN3mHEAOA\">Vindication!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, if you\u2019re going to strut around as some sort of 16-going-on-34 bubbling cauldron of high school rage, you have to be careful with your soundtrack. You can\u2019t put on <strong>Jocko <\/strong>or <strong>Xibalba <\/strong>after walking by a house that, just this week, replaced its Trump 2020 flag with a Thin Blue Line flag. If you do, you might end up punching a stop sign while walking your dogs like an impotent, impudent doofus. That\u2019s just an example, of course, and I\u2019m sure I don\u2019t know anyone who\u2019s ever done that.<\/p>\n<p>What makes <em>Golden Hour<\/em> so powerful\u2014seeing as I how I\u2019m supposed to be telling you why you should buy it and support Awenden\u2014is that it channels anti-fascist fury through a carefully crafted copse of core\u2019d-up Cascadian black metal that draws the listener out of their ire and into a wider range of emotional vulnerability. <em>Golden Hour <\/em>offers so much space to explore and breathe that you might find other ways to feel. You don\u2019t have to lay down your anger; rather, you must keep it alongside resignation and resolve, hope and heartbreak, uncertainty and conviction, guilt and selflessness, fear and fortitude. We will need all of these feelings, and more, to have an \u201cincalculably diffusive\u201d effect on those around us. \u201cFor,\u201d as George Eliot writes, \u201cthe growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.\u201d Do what you must to replace the hollow idols of capital and the violent hierarchy of beings with a righteous and ceaselessly spreading compassion borne from an endless journey towards a moral and just life, whatever form that might take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 5th, Bandcamp will once again waive their percentage of proceeds, so that 100% of the money goes directly to the artists. We\u2019ll be spending the week highlighting some releases that you might want to throw money at to help the creators through these shittiest of times. Laudare \u2013 Have Heart, Waste Flesh Release Date: March 16, 2020 Most Violent Poem: \u201cExodus the Wayward\u201d \ufeffHave Heart, Waste Flesh by Laudare I love music that makes me feel poetic. Walking around listening to Have Heart, Waste Flesh will inevitably lead one to take notice of the world, searching for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":102203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"IGoM wants YOU to buy shid on Bandcamp this Friday!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,370],"tags":[2751,15775,15778,15777,15776,1615,1581,1594,2372],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/waiveheader.jpg?fit=710%2C375&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102202"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102227,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102202\/revisions\/102227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}