Ipsa’s Reviews > England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground > Status Update

AAAAAA I DON'T WANT THIS BOOK TO END!!!!

obviously this book isn't about any of that, and i love these people, but i keep getting irked with their utter unawareness of or disregard for or disinterest in England's violent colonial past while romanticising the 'mysticism' it lost that it had in those imperialist times. like gtfoh. maybe it's just me and my global south sensibilities finally feeling too saturated with the rampant englishness of this book.

"Coil's Love's Secret Domain as the psychedelic gazetteer of england's hidden reverse.."

pale queens mighty in sorrow

so-called ‘Industrial’ music became dance music. I can't dance to save my life but I've got nothing against dance music – Sly & The Family Stone are one of my favourite groups – but I never understood why people started dancing. So I came out with Swastikas For Noddy, while other people shaved their heads, put on serious glasses and bought sequencers.

made me lol.

We see our music as sound sculptures unhindered by preconceived ideas, where any sound may be used whether natural or manmade, untreated or treated electronically, and motivated only by aesthetic considerations.

Sleazy's father Derman...eventually becoming a knight of the realm i read this and I immediately thought that Sleazy's father became a knight in an artistic, knight errant sense because why not?...until I remembered that he was English and they're weird like that. he was anointed a literal knight. smh.