That naturally influenced the music, lyrics, even the packaging. It does exist, and for a long time it was all I could talk or think about. It's the opposite of the predominant cultural attitude towards death in the West, namely that we should pretend it doesn't exist. Scene Point Blank: How did you come upon the Deathconsciousness concept?ĭan: Deathconsciousness is very closely tied to what was going on in my life at the time of its recording. Deathconsciousness as a concept, I guess, is a logical development of this fixation. Tim: Though our earliest demos, come to think of it, revolved around death, dying and the dead as well, albeit in a more absurdist context. The songs are spread very, very far apart, chronologically, although most are from the last two years or so. Scene Point Blank: Did you start with the Deathconsciousness concept right from the outset?ĭan: Deathconsciousness as a concept and unifying theme came much later. However, once we got into home recording, we became shut-ins. Tim: Our earliest endeavors revolved around making college coffee house sorts uncomfortable. I left the states to study abroad but kept in touch with Tim we found out we had both been doing some acoustic recordings, traded tapes back and forth, and quickly discovered we were more or less the same person, and decided to start a band when I got back, almost a year later.
Tim and I had met when our previous bands had played many of the same shows. Scene Point Blank: How did the band start?ĭan: Have a Nice Life started by email. After acquiring this release of this impressive collection of music, I had to pick the brains of the two people responsible for this band and its strangely alluring melodies, rhythms, and sounds. Having been a laborious endeavor over roughly six years, the band released Deathconsciousness only just this January through their own, Enemies List Home Recordings label. The sophistication and ambition necessary to compose and write such a large work goes beyond what most bands or groups are willing to or can release on their own. Listen to it loud.Have a Nice Life recently released Deathconsciousness, an ambitious double disk collection of songs that also included a booklet discussing the possible existence of a heretical apocalyptic type Christian sect from the Middle Ages that helped to inform their music and lyrics. In fact getting around to actually put my thoughts down has been a difficult task to accomplish.” – Last on Our Listĥ years after Deathconsciousness, Dan and Tim return with The Unnatural World, a tightly-wired exploration of the post-punk, industrial, and doom-fusion sound that they helped to popularize. “‘The Unnatural World’ by Have a Nice Life is quite possibly the most overwhelming album to have come out this year. “It’s literally flawless.” – Anti-Gravity Bunny The soundtrack to a slow sink into the ground.” – Decoy
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Plus drone, plus doom, plus cold-wave, plus post-punk, wintry yet intimate.
“Have a Nice Life have perfected a sort of industrial shoegaze. “hums with the overblown quiver of industrial percussion, the gasps of desperate reverb, and distant, elongated, harmonized vocals.” – Alarm Magazine “For such dark music, The Unnatural World is addictively melodic. “…massive in its scope, with production that reflects the heft of the material more than ever.” – NPR Instead it moves, and moves others with it.” – Pitchfork
“Sinuous instead of rigid, bloody instead of embalmed, the album refuses to be frozen in time or place.
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