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Drifting away from Cope and trying to get back
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Zariadris
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Edited Jan 20, 2020, 15:37
Re: Drifting away from Cope and trying to get back
Jan 20, 2020, 15:31
This discussion reminds of the old Bob Dylan gone electric controversy! I remember guys that could still never forgive him for it! Personally, as a once and future headbanger and krautrocker, I'm naturally a huge fan of the loooong - indeed, ongoing - period of Cope's work following TMA from around L.A.M.F, Brain Donor, his collaboration with Sunn (My Wall), Rome (Shrine of the Black Youth, Eccentrifugal Force), Citizen Cain'd (a total masterpiece - Livin' in the Room They Found Saddam In, Feels Like a Crying Shame, Gimme Head, etc. - phew!), on into the Black Sheep trip (that live at BBC album just blows my mind), and Revolutionary Suicide (the Armenian Genocide is like sacred music to me). I'm really digging Self Civil War (Seth Man nailed it), and love the way it challenges me, pushing me in and out of my comfort zones, expanding they way I see - and listen. Black Math? Bring it on!

I've long since backtracked and discovered the earlier stuff I'd missed which you guys hooked up with in real time, and I certainly love that too (Jehovahkill is a stone cold desert 'island' disc, pardon the pun). But his later work is key and no less essential, and should, I believe, be seen as both a natural progression (not a break) and part of a wider creative trip that includes his writings, activism, the side projects (am I the only fan of the Black Sheep VC?!), the Unsung/Address Drudion posts, and 131 with its ingenious tie-ins. In the final analysis, Cope's whole thing is greater than the sum of its considerable parts, as fine as those parts are: it's an eclectic, mythopoeic and open-ended worldview that invites us to engage with it, and expand upon it, on our own terms. Very few artists will give you that.
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