This past year has been an absolute dumpster fire with the global pandemic, corrupt politicians telling us how to live our lives, and constantly feeling on edge. According to our Steve, Liverpool’s very own Death Blooms are channeling all of that rage into their masterfully crafted EP, ‘Fuck Everything’.
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JOhn B had a hard time figuring out where he wanted to start with this one. The whole experience was more subtle than he expected it to be. In a good way. There is a clear emotional tone to how every track is put together guiding your experience; but it is an experience that is hard to put into words… It is beautiful, though.
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Now, Jonny B is not exactly renowned for having the best attention span in the world, so when he realised he’d been handed a four-hour long album, he knew he was going to be in for one hell of a challenge. Yes, JB really does mean four hours! He knew he had a choice to make; whether to listen to the album in bitesize chunks or to let it dominate his day while he cracked on with the less glamorous things that he had to do during the day… he opted for the latter…
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Saturday night has rolled around yet again, which means that it’s time for the now habitual beers on the sofa! But, tonight is slightly different because Jonny B is being whisked off to the Mojave desert again (remotely of course) to pick up the fourth instalment in this five concert series that culminates with Nick Oliveri’s Stoner in just two weeks’ time.
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Well, 2021 may have may have finally taken its reasonably confident steps into its third month, with some light seeming to finally appear at the end of the tunnel for what otherwise has been pretty much of another shitstorm of a year, with the vaccination programme finally starting to take effect and BoJo’s much-vaunted “roadmap” out of the crisis finally having some form of, albeit loose, timetable. Of course, it comes too late for the first half of the festival season, with both Download, Glastonbury already shelved for the second successive year and other events also facing the inevitability of further cancellations, while it remains to be seen if there will be any longer lasting restrictions on live events, either indoors or outdoors. With the path to our previous level of “normality” still a long way off, at least 2021 is sharing something more positive in common with 2020, in that it already has produced some terrific new music, with the promise of plenty more to come, if the inbox here at ÜRHQ is anything to go by…
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