1001 Other AlbumsAs randomly chosen by survey* on Mastodon, our next spotlight is on number 54 on The List, submitted by mbr.
Before working on this spotlight, I was aware of GGGOLDDD’s 2022 brave and difficult** album This Shame Should Not Be Mine, which was written as a commissioned piece for the 2021 online version of Roadburn (with the live album then released the same day as the studio version). What I think I missed though was that somewhere around TSSNBM, GOLD changed their name to GGGOLDDD, meaning Why Aren’t You Laughing? is from the very same band.
Given the heavy lyrics of TSSNBM, I would definitely recommend starting with WAYL? first. It’s a really interesting mix of gothic-tinged post-rock/-metal with great vocals from Milena Eva that give off some Kristin Hersh vibes, some Brutus vibes, and even some Aurora vibes (especially in “Taken By Storm”). If you’re then hooked and are in a good place, give TSSNBM a spin.
*The survey choices that led to this spotlight were “Turned away from it all like a blind man”, “Sat on the fence but it don’t work”, “Keep comin up with love but it’s so slashed & torn”, and “Why, why, why?”, following the earlier survey that had “It’s the terror of knowing what this world’s about”, “Watching some good friends screaming, ‘Let me out’”, “Pray tomorrow gets me higher”, and “Pressure on people, people on streets”. The last phrase was the winning selection, so the survey result was translated as picking the first album in The List with one of the phrase’s words in the title, the matching word here being, obviously, “why”.
**The lyrics of TSSNBM were written by singer Eva about when she was raped as a teenager, and her trauma around that situation.
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/09/13/gold-why-arent-you-laughing-2019-netherlands/
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