@kleptones here, back at the blog sooner than expected for well obvious reasons. Amsterdam is unsurprisingly really fuckin' quiet (school, cafe & bar shutdown was just announced, in effect from 6pm), not that I've been out of the house much to check. Here's hoping that (for once) people heed the advice of medical professionals (and some governments, hem hem) and lay low until this runs its course... there really is nothing else that can be done, sadly.
"I'm sure I'm not unique in this respect but, lately, at the end of every week, I look back and think, "what a month!"
This past week was no different but the volume seemed to be turned up 11 though, with the continued spread of COVID-19, the bungled and not-so-bungled responses to it, the stock market's turmoil, festival, concert, and sport cancellations far and wide, borders closing, self-quarantines, and so on. Given the news, I was half-tempted to collect various covers of John Lennon's "Isolation" but I'm not sure that would have qualified under the rules.
When I got down to it though, I was flip-flopping between picking something calming and soothing to counteract the stress and anxiety of the real world and something that was reflective of the times. After reviewing some records from either side of that divide, I flipped the mental coin in my head and went with the latter.
So here's a dystopian tale of environmental pollution, totalitarianism, nuclear annihilation, and a Messianic boy with psychic powers. It's a double album so a bit on a the long side (sorry) but you've nowhere to go and nothing to do today except stay in and listen to music, right?"
Okidoke, direct download is here (with the wrong date on it, oops), and the stream is below:
See you at 8pm GMT.
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