Tropical Fuck Storm - Deep StatesMost of us have lived some inner Tropical Fuck Storm over this past yearand a half. Even for a band that's made a career out of crafting songs attunedto political and social crisis, there was a new bleak in the air for Tropical FuckStorm, what the band calls "give a fuck fatigue." The third album from theavant punk quad aptly titled Deep States mines familiar ground as well asnew cultural terrains, while digging deeper into the subjective state

composed by Jasper and arranged together during our recording session

The boldadmission is but one example of the intimacy experienced throughout the record

This 2-CD set features actor Didier Bourdon reading (in French) Arthur Schopenhauer's work "L'art d'avoir toujours raison" ("The art of being always right")

multi-instrumentalist and sonic visionary Angel Deradoorian has never shied away from testing aural and conceptual boundaries in her work

Western Swing and Country Honky Tonk music throughout the series

featuring the hits "Wind Parade" and "Dominoes

On the way to a dance that she hasn't been invited to

It is a masterfully constructed work and the overt formal schemes of the Classical period are complemented by the subtle use of elements that were characteristic of music between the wars - in particular the timbres of the French tradition

An imaginary "Tombeau de Mr Strobel" by his contemporary Johann Gumprecht builds the frame for Strobel's compositions

This set also includes all the LPs

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full of Debussyan nocturne-like character