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The little I’ve heard about Sacramento’s Darlingchemicalia keeps saying “Goth” and “post-punk” like those terms mean anything to a dour indie-rock band. Are these folks trying to sell themselves as Goth? The music is somewhat bleak, but mostly just sounds like a noisy pop downer, with nasally...

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DarlingChemicalia

Spun In White

8 out of 10

On the band’s latest effort Spun in White, Bone allows the collaborative vibe that permeated the edges of Valleys and Masking to fully blossom into something special. While there’s still a creepy aura and guitar drone aplenty, the album feels much more expansive than anything the band has attempted yet. Instead of drenching everything in reverb, DarlingChemicalia boldly move away from their lo-fi aesthetic by opening up their sound and allowing the members to play off each other. Every track feels carefully calibrated, but not in a way that comes across streamlined.

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Listen/purchase: Spun In White by Darlingchemicalia

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muse

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death wants more death, and its webs are full:

I remember my father's garage, how child-like

I would brush the corpses of flies

from the windows they had thought were escape--

their sticky, ugly, vibrant bodies

shouting like dumb crazy dogs against the glass

only to spin and flit

in that second larger than hell or heaven

onto the edge of the ledge,

and then the spider from his dank hole

nervous and exposed

the puff of body swelling

hanging there

not really quite knowing,

and then knowing--

something sending it down its string,

the wet web,

toward the weak shield of buzzing,

the pulsing;

a last desperate moving hair-leg

there against the glass

there alive in the sun,

spun in white;

and almost like love:

the closing over,

the first spider-sucking:

filling its sack

upon this thing that lived;

crouching there upon its back

drawing its certain blood

as the world goes by outside

and my temples scream

and I hurl the broom against them:

the spider dull with spider-anger

still thinking of its prey

and waving an amazed broken leg;

the fly very still,

a dirty speck stranded to straw;

I shake the killer loose

and he walks lame and peeved

towards some dark corner

but I intercept his dawdling

his crawling like some broken hero,

and the straws smash his legs

now waving

above his head

and looking

looking for the enemy

and somehow valiant,

dying without apparent pain

simply crawling backward

piece by piece

leaving nothing there

until at last the red gut-sack splashes

its secrets,

and I run child-like

with God's anger a step behind,

back to simple sunlight,

wondering

as the world goes by

with curled smile

if anyone else

saw or sensed my crime

-Charles Bukowski

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suicide in your mom/cigarette on your couch/marijuana/i need to feel that dope now/in the city/where all the girls goin south/marijuana/well i feel the dull now/i'd kill myself to see you with your pants off/suicide on your couch/cigarette with your mom

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and i was lost before you'd sing me your concerns/and i was lost before you picked flowers from the church/and i was looked after by a hooded warrior/and i was longing for the stenciled path back to your door/green lung - i finally found someone

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Ainlif

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cross your heart/till we start/screwing like/two wasps in fire/hope to die/perfumed divide/limbs entwined/in widows desire/cut offs-shirt off/don't you love to ride on/don't you want me?/roses are/in backs of cars/easy ride/cocooned suicide/violets lie/you blossom fire/nude valentine/insecticide

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i may get lost in you once in a while/with your wandering eyes/and your blurred retinas/i may get lost in you once in a while/with your broken heart/and your cold arteries/sweethearts leave tonight/it's not right/decay love decay light/you're not mine/i may get lost in you once in a while/with your crooked spine/when you turn your back to me/i may get lost in you once in a while/when your open arms welcome anatomy

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