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Serial Designation Z!

This baby belongs to @lunar-angel7 !

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the sheaves — A Salve for Institution (Dot Dash Sounds/SDZ)

The sheaves, from Arizona, make music out of disintegration, out of entropy, out of the center not holding. Two guitars battle in screeching, trebly agitation, way up on the neck in close, painful intervals. The vocals, often doubled, talking over one another, mutter lethargic, illegible poetry over the bump and clangor of post-punk catharsis. A tootling keyboard drifts into view, its mad circus vibe not at all cheerful, more haunted and eerie. The drums flail wildly trying to keep this fractious stew of sensations in some sort of order; it works about a quarter of the time.

The band’s last album, Excess Death Cult, came out on Minimum Table Stacks in 2023, with much the same anarchic energy. In my review, I observed, “Like end-stage Fall, the sheaves are always falling apart, always dissolving into chemicals, always losing the thread. Listening to Excess Death Cult Time is like trying to make sense of a dream you’re having, not later, but while it’s still going on.” Nothing in Salve for Institution has changed my mind about his fascinating, enticing but off-putting band.

Except that maybe, the last one had a couple of semi-bops, if you can extend your definition of “bop” to include the swampier territories of GBV, the more obstreperous, late-period regions of the Fall. This one is harsher and more confrontational all the way through, its riffs going off like rubber bands made of barbed wire, snapping back to hurt people, yet snapping all the same. The sheaves scrawl in black sharpie on industrial grade sandpaper, emphatic but blurred enough at the edges that you can’t quite make out what’s going on.

They start right in the middle of things with “Toilet of Venus,” a scrum of guitars caught mid-sentence in a continuing rant, as the singer mutters disconsolately, over enunciating but never quite making himself clear. It ends suddenly in a souring chord, which hangs like the dust the Road Runner leaves after he’s jetted off to parts unknown.

Songs like “In Center (X-Static)” groove slouchily, mired in inertia. Riffs like Saints’ outtakes rage then slip under a muck of hiss and static, but the siren-y call to arms gets through. “Dull Harem” jitters a la Bog Shed drunk on cough syrup, its hammering cadence of guitar/bass/drums slurred over with narcotized chant. The sheaves are under no obligation to make things pretty for you; they’d rather smear sharp contours with messy drawls.

And those are the “song” songs. “To Leave Sanctuary” emerges out of inchoate drone, a bit of the Stooges “Dirt” in its detuned howl. Dual guitars ping blues bent dissonances. The vocals overlap, talking past each other, a word or phrase (“Can you imagine that?”) occasionally breaking through.

You can’t quite make sense of the sheaves’ music, it is powerful anyway, and maybe the struggle to understand it contributes to the appeal. “Sanctum Cross” is a pop song with a 100 needles sticking out of it. Grasp it hard, and you’ll end up bloody, but admire it from a step away, and you’ll see it glitter.

Jennifer Kelly

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Sexy Sanctuary - 04 Cancer Deathmask ♋

Continuing the designs in the order of the hunky Gold Saints in Saint Seiya (knights of the zodiac), here is the sinister Deathmask of Cancer. 23 years old, Italian trained in Sicily, he is an enigmatic psychopompic character with a dark aura. However, he has a wide range of fans whom I salute in passing.

I can see him being macho and since we're in the 80's, a lit cigarette. No connection with the sad disease of the same name. But we can't help but think about it.

In the manga he has gray hair and eyes, and I thought a punk rock cut would suit him perfectly. And a good trellis too.

And you what do you think about him?

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sdz / do not edit.

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just some low quality jisung icons!

please give love to stray kids!

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A list of WIPs

Just here because I need to get things organized + I feel like sharing though no one cares

Things I'm actually writing atm:

A very sad drama about people being awful to each other that will serve me as a mean to explore human psyche and also cope with the rage and frustration I've been building up the past months. Goal: finish it before July/August, around 15k. Current state: outlined, scraps, 4 chapters.

A telenovela-like magical realism inspired story, set in a vaguely Latin American land, with love, passion, treason, war, rags to riches, family rivalry, identical twins, horses and a bit of unexplainable things. Goal: finish before October, around 20k. Current state: story outline and around 2k. I need to read more to get inspired.

Family dramedy: a girl finds out she inherited a house in Czech Republic, investigates, discovers well-kept family secrets. Goal: finish this month, it's a short story. Current state: outlined, paralyzed since January lol

Prompts for the Buzzfeed Unsolved Universe characters (together with @marwoood 💫)

Things I suddenly feel like writing:

Maybe try out poetry again

Something with vampires, anything

Fanfic for Star Trek because I've been meaning to do it for years but can't find a good idea

Fanfic for LOTR because yes also ill probably be reading Return of the King this summer so

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ÈLG “La Chimie” (LP. SDZ rcds. 2013) [FR]