Label: Flenser
Released 2014
Have a Nice Life released their debut double-album Deathconsciousness in 2008 to a whimper and critical non-interest; six years later, the band followed it up with 2014’s stunner The Unnatural World. In the meantime, Deathconsciousness has become a cult classic whose seamless blend of shoegaze, post-punk, new wave, industrial and noise influences inspires fanatic obsession. Now, longtime Have a Nice Life collaborator The Flenser reissues Deathconsciousness on colored vinyl with deluxe packaging. The band commented, “Working with Flenser lets us keep things comfortable on our end, while also pressing enough copies to actually meet the need and not creating an artificially inflated collector’s market, as happened with some of our past releases.” Rhythmic, primal and expansive, Deathconsciousness offers a meditation on death, loss and unrequited love, with repeated listens revealing new layers of depth and meaning. The Flenser’s reissue is accompanied by a 75-page booklet detailing the dark and forgotten history of the Antiochean cult—an engrossing narrative that blurs the lines between liner notes, novella and academic text.
Track listing:
The Plow That Broke The Plains
- A Quick One Before The Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut
- Bloodhail
- The Big Gloom
- Hunter
- Telefony
- Who Would Leave Their Son Out In The Sun?
- There Is No Food
The Future
- Waiting For Black Metal Records To Come In The Mail
- Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000
- The Future
- Deep, Deep
- I Don't Love
- Earthmover