i love the lyrics and the sound, and how it tackles existential sadness and depression in a really grim but accepting way. The progression from ‘A Quick One Before The Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut’ to ‘Bloodhail’, when that first bass note chimes in, is something that never fails to make me verbally react. The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide, University of California Press. I've praised this album in a number of different ways. It is split into two parts, ‘The Plow That Broke the Plains’ and ‘The Future’, which flow like a linear narrative. “We’re playing songs in a dead genre about believers in a dead religion,” Tim remarked, “who’s going to want to listen to that?” – taken from the foreword of On An Obscure Text. Their debut record, Deathconsciousness , featured a seventy page booklet presenting a character study of the little-known historical figure Antiochus, but like … After eight years of inactivity, they released their first-ever full-length project, a double-lp called Deathconsciousness in 2008. Deathconsciousness is a double album; the first disc is entitled "The Plow That Broke the Plains", the second is entitled "The Future". [12] The Independent regards it as "perhaps" one of the first concept albums, consisting exclusively of semi-autobiographical songs about the hardships of American migrant labourers during the 1930s. Just goes to show how far talent will take you. They are going through a period of death, but they come back and describe a detached experience where they are watching doctors work on them from the corner of the room. The track “Hunter” has a very shoegazy aesthetic to it. [13] In the late 1940s, the LP record was introduced, with space age pop composers producing concept albums soon after. A concept album is an album whose tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually. Our website services, content, and products are for informational purposes only. [35] Pink Floyd's The Wall (1979), a semi-autobiographical story modeled after the band's Roger Waters and Syd Barrett, is one of the most famous concept albums by any artist. People are responsible for their actions,” said Parnia. Deathconsciousness Have a Nice Life. the instruments used and how long it took them to complete it (five years! At the risk of sounding like I browse /mu/ on the daily, the musical content of this album is perfect. But Deathconsciousness differs from Bowie’s Blackstar in an important way. ( Log Out / Or at least the brain believes so. Dan’s laptop had crashed during this time and the master files vanished. [14], Singer Frank Sinatra recorded several concept albums prior to the 1960s rock era, including In the Wee Small Hours (1955) and Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958). I wrote another glowing review of this album last year, in which I gave it a perfect score, as I'm doing now. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Up until Parnia’s current research, it’s been thought that when a person flatlines, they must be unconscious because no brain waves are detected. Healthline Media does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Parnia said this goes against everything science has discovered so far. “We’re playing music in a dead genre about believers in a dead religion. The glass ceiling effect also takes a toll on your health. “Kind of like how heat comes off of fire. I'm not liking this review because you have a different opinion to me, Rate and review albums along with your friends. The record itself is hefty, as it’s a double LP. Karmic relationships are often equal parts passionate and volatile, and you may feel like you're magnetically drawn to the other person. But yet we have no plausible biological mechanism to identify how our thoughts come about from brain processes, even though we understand the brain in so much detail,” Parnia said. Another is the Beach Boys' Little Deuce Coupe (1963). Although it isn’t an image of suicide, but rather a political murder, it could easily be confused for one—again, showing the thought that has been put into the aesthetic to match the album’s sombre and dirgy sound. It would be unnatural to press the shuffle button when each song so effectively flows into the next like pages into chapters, with each segue only drawing you further into its story. "[28][nb 2] Musicologist Allan Moore says that "Even though previous albums had set a unified mood (notably Sinatra's Songs for Swinging Lovers), it was on the basis of the influence of Sgt. People twirl their hair for lots of different reasons. Or they describe actual conversations that doctors and nurses later verify,” Parnia said. It included 2,000 participants who experienced cardiac arrest. ... [He was the] first pop singer to bring a consciously artistic attitude to recording. While things have improved over the last several decades, it’s a problem that persists. The disks are gorgeous, both orange and double sided to fit the 1 hour and 25 minute album in full. This text is not too dissimilar to a lore book you would find attached to something like Lord of the Rings—except much darker. The song perfectly captures the feeling of going to bed after a stressful day. The problem with this idea is that it doesn’t fit our worldview. [22], Other records have been claimed as "early" or "first" concept albums. Then what about the idea that what’s occurring is experienced by a part of the brain or brain capacity we haven’t discovered yet? I paid a decent amount of euros to get this vinyl shipped over to the UK, and when it arrived a few weeks later, I sat in awe of it. The album opener is more of an ambient sounding song, while the second track, “Blood hail” is layered with crashing guitars; extremely reminiscent of classic post-punk tracks. Deathconsciousness Tracklist. As far as sonic progression goes, HANL executes a perfect build up to a chaotic and very satisfying closer in Earthmover. In short, the concept is lofty, convoluted, and intense, not unlike the drug-induced dreams of The Mars Volta or Pink Floyd. “They know they had something, but they couldn’t recall it,” Parnia said. The final bassline is a distorted drone note as Macuga apparently dropped his bass guitar because the emotive feeling of the song became too much to handle. Many People Thought to Be in 'Vegetative' Conditions May Still Be Conscious, The Changing Definition of What Is ‘Brain Dead’. In an epic double-disc project of pure post punk perfection, Have a Nice Life's Deathconsciousness includes every possible positive quality that I look for in an album. Deleted. There is no clear definition of what constitutes a "concept album". While Blackstar foreshadowed Bowie’s demise, Deathconsciousness serves as a preparation for death. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. “As soon as the heart stops, you not only lose consciousness and your brain stem reflexes are all gone, but also the electricity that your brain creates slows down immediately, and within about 2 to 20 seconds it completely flatlines.”. 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Is Twirling Your Hair as a Habit a Symptom of an Underlying Condition? Written by an unnamed historian at the University of Massachusetts, On An Obscure Text tells the story of Antiocheanism, a religion and later cult whose main belief was that death equals truth and truth equals death. Concepts of heaven, hell, soul, and spirit are meaningless–as is the question, ‘where will I go when I die?’–because once we are gone, we lose our identity, our consciousness, forever. "[6] A precursor to this type of album can be found in the 19th century song cycle[8] which ran into similar difficulties in classification. We have a very thorough understanding of how the brain works, and because of science and technology, we have so many ways to peer inside the brain,” Parnia said. There is this amazing sense of primal energy; driven by fuzzed-out guitar lines. 1. “So the point of our research was this: If we can restart the heart after a person has gone through the first period of death, before the cells have become irreversibly damaged, then we can bring back a whole person without brain damage, or what’s called a disorder of consciousness. The Antiochean cult might be dead, but Deathconsciousness is not. "[36], With the emergence of MTV as a music video network which valued singles over albums, concept albums became less dominant in the 1980s. and indeed what secures it as a highly considered concept album. ( Log Out / The album has been the subject of many books and thesis dissertations. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. 29.6K 2. Deathconsciousness, as a concept, is always on my mind. “Many people have anecdotally reported being able to see and hear what’s going on at the time of their resuscitation.