Member Since: Jan 27, 2004
Rank: 10,055
Average Vote Received: Correct (4.02, 1283 votes)
last 10 days: Correct (4.00, 10 votes)
Rated 140 releases, average: 4.78
Location: Washington, DC
Profile: Former Discogs moderator (when there used to be such a thing) from October 2006 until our comrades in the Discogs front office turned on v4 of the site.
Long-time music addict with a collection exceeding 6000 titles (slowly but surely they are all finding their way into the Discogs site).
Genres of interest run a wide range, but are centered around electronic (IDM, ambient, experimental, glitch/microsound, drone, minimal, downtempo, triphop, rhythmic/industrial) and rock (primarily post rock, slowcore, shoegaze, 4ADish, and some of the more unusual indie). I also have a soft spot in my heart for harDCore; I spent my "formative years" from a music perspective in DC during the 80s, the heyday of the local punk scene.
Radio DJ at WRPI from 1987 to 1993. Club/lounge/artspace DJ from 1987 to 2001; most recently as co-founder of the DC area event Rituals. Real life has recently put me into retirement from spinning out in public, aside from the occasional one-off.
If you have something from my wantlist (either for set sale or on eBay), feel free to drop me an e-mail. All set sale offers must include: your price, your shipping cost to the US, and the condition of the item. If you see something in my collection that interests you, feel free to get in touch (with your "best & final" offer). Although there are many "not for sale at any price" items in my collection, you never know...
I am not willing to trade MP3s or CDRs, so no requests, please!
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100.0% positive (82 ratings)
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To this day, "The Comforts of Madness" remains one of my favorite albums. There are shoegaze bands who sold more records, who got more press in NME & Melody Maker, and who are more frequently cited as influences on contemporary bands, but let's not sell the Pale Saints short. You would be hard pressed to find a more cohesive shoegaze album from start to finish. A treasure of the 4AD catalog!
Before there was Morr Music and other labels that popularized the very willing combination of shoegaze/dreampop and ambient electronica in the very late 90s and early 2000s (perhaps culminating in the release of the Slowdive cover/tribute album "Blue Skied An' Clear"), there was this album. The perfect blend of soaring, fuzzed out guitars, ambient synth work, and beats, this is clearly the pinnacle of Bowery Electric's catalog.