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Nevertheless, the track is a beautiful one with Cox pushing his voice higher than he has on a good majority of the record, floating lightly in and out of an airy falsetto. The one shortcoming of the album comes in the final moments, insofar as the penultimate acoustic ballad “I Will Not Sleep Here” would have worked much better as the album’s closer. They are similar in sound to one another, but only in a way that allows them to flow together perfectly, and never once coming across as a stylistic repetition. They are dark, brooding, massive, and mean in all the right places. The latter two tracks “Shadow of the Truth” and “Silence” are the two best Merchandise tracks I’ve heard in years. While the opening numbers are truly great, the album really hits its stride with the trio of “Lonesome Sound,” “Shadow of the Truth,” and “Silence.” “Lonesome Sound” is the epitome of that attitude I keep referring to the lead and rhythm guitars are a beautiful balance of hazy reverb and acoustic jangle, and Cox’s croon stands right in the middle with a cowboy-like swagger.
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The album is sequenced wonderfully, each track a comfortable and intriguing change from the one previous. In fact, the beat for the third track “Right Back To The Start” sounds eerily identical to the opening groove of Throbbing Gristle’s 20 Jazz Funk Greats. Lyrically, Cox spins a much more refined narrative throughout this track than he really ever has before.
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Even the loops themselves have an added bite to them, verging on industrial sounding. The first few tracks contain a healthy mix of live drums and slinking, creeping drum machine loops that provide a new dynamic flow to the songwriting. The flanged out guitar lines and Cox’s croon have never sounded quite so clear, while still maintaining that all-important attitude and character. The very first moments of A Corpse Wired For Sound bring back the same dreamy romanticism found in the band’s earlier material, with a nice added layer of clarity. Cox takes some of what he learned and re-discovered in his time off, and siphons it into Merchandise’s best record since Children of Desire. This, combined with Cox’s immersion into the underground club scene while in Berlin, seems to have allowed him to get back to his dirty, noisy roots. Floating between Italy, Berlin, and New York, the Florida native formed the duo Death Index with Italian hardcore veteran Marco Rapisarda, crafting a unique experiment in industrial and noise that echoed The Birthday Party and Suicide. In between records, front man Carson Cox did some exploring, both geographically and personally. Their latest effort, A Corpse Wired For Sound, is equal parts a step forward and backwards. They could have carried it over into a pop setting, but they were not able to. Part of what made Merchandise so attractive to me was the coolness, the attitude of it all. It wasn’t because they had decided to become a pop band, I was actually fairly excited upon hearing the premise of them “going for it,” but what lost me was the neutrality of the songwriting. With that being said, I had almost lost faith in them after hearing 2014’s After The End. įortunately, the "corpse flower" stench only lasts for 24 to 36 hours while it blooms.By Dan Manning ( disclaimer before I begin this review: Merchandise are one of my favorite bands currently putting out music, and their 2012 record Children of Desire is easily in my top 25 (if not top 10) records of all time. In 2010, the tallest "corpse flower" ever bloomed at Winnipesaukee Orchids in Gilford, New Hampshire, according to Guinness World Records.Īmazon's Spheres can fit about 800 people, and the company's 40,000-plus Seattle-area employees have reserved all the available time slots through April.
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The plant usually grows to six to eight feet tall, and its leaves can measure up to 16 feet wide. After the insects fly in and realize there's no food, they fly off with pollen on their legs, ensuring the continuation of the flower's species, according to the University of California Botanical Garden. To further attract them, titan arums can warm up to 98 degrees Fahrenheit. The flower's stench, as well as its burgundy color, encourages pollination from dung beetles, flesh flies, and other carnivorous insects that eat dead flesh.