Julian Cope presents Head Heritage | Unsung Forum | Joy Division and the uncanny in music

Fatalist

1123 posts

Re: Joy Division and the uncanny in music

Mar 04, 2015, 14:03

jb lamptoast-morsley wrote:

What came to mind just now was a track off Sufjan Stevens' Seven Swans album - actually i think it is called Seven Swans. The ending particularly sends shivers down my spine. Some kind of apocalyptic black angel of death judgement day kind of thing. Does that count? :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99TCWaHmWKc

It's definitely got that vibe where you wonder what's going through the artist's head to produce the music they're making.

It's tough exactly defining the uncanny, and it will mean/feel like different things to different people. Das Unheimliche, the original German term, means "the opposite of what is familiar", so maybe we're talking about music that gives enjoyment, but in a way that our normal pleasure centres find harder to process - perhaps it's those synaptic gears grinding that causes the weird cerebral tingling that I associate with the uncanny.

In reply to:
Re: Joy Division and the uncanny in music (jb lamptoast-morsley)

Unsung Forum » Joy Division and the uncanny in music	Log In to post a reply

67 messages	Topic View: Flat \| Threaded