The Motors - Tenement Steps


Great news everybody, today was so brain-meltingly terrible in terms of constructed reality being completely not actual reality that i totally lost my train of thought. 

You might think i could just take some time and rethink it and eventually pick back up again, but nope! Trash can that idea, we'll just listen to what The Motors did after Bram Tchaikovsky and the other guy quit but before the two remaining members quit too. I don't know what to expect from Tenement Steps, and i don't care enough to try to find out. I'll either like it or i won't and then we'll listen to an incredibly obscure Metal album that some metalheads love and some metalheads hate. Then it'll be actual winter and i'll be totally at a loss as to what to do next. Maybe i'll just sell all my stuff on marketplace and go full hermit (relax, it's just cold november raining and i'm exaggerating the SAD). 

This album is annoyingly cut like that on purpose. Someone thought that was a great way to stand out and be unique and they were wrong. Imma flip the insert around and stick the red inner sleeve through the missing corners because i need the mental stability of squares today. 


Ok, i'm not crazy, am i? This is a bizarre New Wave-ish musical? Ok, i am crazy, but so is this. This is definitely a critique of the whole Urban/Suburban middle-class myth, complete with full chorus choruses and wacky orchestral accompaniment to a weird mash of New Wave of old school Rock and Roll. It's weird for an actual album, but i gotta say it's pretty fun. Maybe i should have the whole crew create the actual libretto. Pointless, but intellectually adventurous. Nah, i'll just wait for the execution guaranteed by the skeleton gangster on tomorrow's album cover. Happy gloomy, rain-soaked Wednesday everybody.

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