There’s also a companion piece that comes with the album, a nearly 100 page booklet detailing/explaining some of the references on the album, much about the ‘hunter’ and his efforts to slay God. There’s the doom of mankind, the death of God, machines that kill everything in their wake, dealing with loss, world-ending golems, and suicidal depression. Lyrically and thematically, this album varies, but several ideas are common threads. Their sound is so massive that I was surprised to find that it came from just two musicians, and was even more surprised when I learned the drums were added via machine. They both make heavy use of electronics and it gets tricky when you try to pin down who did what on this album, or which idea was whose. For the most part Barrett sings and plays the guitars while Macuga brings the backup vocals and bass guitar. Deathconsciousness blends Post-Punk, Post-Rock, Post-Rock, Doom, Shoegaze, and other genres to create something entirely unique.ĭan Barrett and Tim Macuga are the masterminds behind this album, and this album is their collaboration they’ve cultivated over 5 years to make. The atmosphere is absolutely choking, they fill the air with deep and heavy noise (most often distortion and feedback) and do not let up at all. What’s left is a 128kbs recording that someone had uploaded to a torrent site – it goes without saying that this album’s production is the furthest from ‘smooth’ you could possibly get. The album was recorded from a laptop microphone and high quality masters of it were erased in a tragic hard drive failure. On to what it actually sounds like – the two most defining aspects of this album are it’s lo-fi production, and bleak and apocalyptic atmosphere. Through many periods in my life, up and down – this album has been a constant for me, something I can always come back to and delve into again to find something I hadn’t before. I think what makes something your favorite of all time isn’t just that you love it, it’s that it grew with you- there’s an absolutely necessary sense of time that your favorite needs to have. There’s so much I can say about this I’m not sure where to start. Deathconsciousness is the debut album from Have a Nice Life, and it’s my favorite album of all time.
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