{"id":37432,"date":"2021-09-06T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=37432"},"modified":"2021-09-05T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T13:00:02","slug":"collapsing-scenery-release-cleaners-from-venus-the-blue-nile-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=37432","title":{"rendered":"Collapsing Scenery release Cleaners From Venus + The Blue Nile Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Collapsing\u00a0Scenery have\u00a0covered Cleaners From Venus&#8217; classic single <em>Drowning Butterflies<\/em> and The Blue Nile&#8217;s <em>The Downtown Lights<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The songs are streaming on DSP here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ffm.to\/rxpmeaj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ffm.to\/rxpmeaj<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On <em>Drowning Butterflies<\/em>, Collapsing\u00a0Scenery&#8217;s\u00a0Don De Vore says:\u00a0<em>\u201cDrowning Butterflies is my favorite song by Martin Newell, who is among my favorite songwriters. It\u2019s a perfect illustration of how to make political music through personal lyrics. The storytelling is flawless. The sense of resignation and exhaustion in the lyric is belied by the gorgeous, aching melody and production. It\u2019s a masterpiece. I hope we did it justice.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dORZjM7BXiY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On The Blue Nile&#8217;s <em>The Downtown Lights<\/em>, he adds: <em>\u201cThe Downtown Lights is a masterpiece, an eccentric, yearning, bizarre, impressionistic wander through a gaslit, haunted cityscape. You can almost see the puddles reflecting neon lights. It was a pleasure to learn this song, as it never goes where you expect it to, and the lyrics are a Byzantine maze of idiosyncratic free association&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HCd6eMidVs8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More about Collapsing Scenery<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Collapsing\u00a0Scenery\u00a0is the meeting of two fertile and febrile minds,\u00a0Don De Vore (Ink &amp; Dagger, Lilys, The Icarus Line, Amazing Baby) and\u00a0Reggie Debris.\u00a0Collapsing\u00a0Scenery\u00a0straddles the gap between music, art, film and politics, seamlessly moving between each with the same ease at which they traverse the globe, soaking up experiences and immersing themselves in different cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since they formed in 2013 \u201cunder a pall of paranoia and disgust\u201d they haven\u2019t stopped moving. Recent collaborations include Jamaican dancehall legend\u00a0Ninjaman, Beastie Boys producer\/collaborator Money Mark,\u00a0and no-wave pioneer\u00a0James Chance. The band also has remixes out or on the way from\u00a0Genesis P-Orridge (Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle), Jennifer Herrema (Royal Trux), Uniform, Youth Code, Brian DeGraw (Gang Gang Dance),\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A conversation with them recalls stories of recently recording a \u2018goth-dancehall\u2019 track in Jamaica, sailing their sound system into Britain for a series of shows, visiting occupied territories in Palestine on fact-finding missions, recording their debut album on a remote ranch in Texas and soaking up rays in Corsica \u2013 and that\u2019s in the first five minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The band&#8217;s debut album\u00a0<em>Stress Positions<\/em>\u00a0is a glorious collision of futurist electro, glacial goth tones, techno, post-punk and chillwave recorded using analogue electronics: samplers, step sequencers, synths and drum machines. Aesthetically it initially recalls the early pioneering synth-punk of bands such as\u00a0Human League, Screamers and The Normal,\u00a0when the most forward thinking punks looked to the twenty-first century. Dig deeper however and it reveals an articulate and highly politicised collection that\u2019s far from mired in nostalgia for the recent past. Quite the opposite:\u00a0<em>Stress Positions\u00a0<\/em>is a forward-looking album with strong state-of-the-world lyrical content. In the tradition of so many defining electro duos \u2013 whether\u00a0Suicide, Pet Shop Boys or Underworld\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Collapsing\u00a0Scenery\u2019s architecture is entirely of their own creation. They\u2019ve built their own world and live in it. The album also features contributions from\u00a0UK grime artist Jammz,\u00a0award wining Palestinian hip hop group DAM, LA shoegazer Tamaryn\u00a0and several other likeminded collaborators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collapsing&nbsp;Scenery&nbsp;offer a new vision for how a modern band can be. They\u2019re not even a band \u2013 they\u2019re curators of a series of planet-planning events, expressions, exhibitions, albums, installations, journeys, adventures and parties, all operating outside of the confines of the tired traditional industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Collapsing\u00a0Scenery have\u00a0covered Cleaners From Venus&#8217; classic single Drowning Butterflies and The Blue Nile&#8217;s The Downtown Lights. 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