… consumer spending slump and tightening credit markets are unleashing a widening wave of bankruptcies in American retailing, prompting thousands of store closings that are expected to remake suburban malls and downtown shopping districts across the country … (NYT, 4/15 ’08)

” Classical ”

01. Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
02. Menomena - My My
Friend and Foe (Barsuk, 2007)
03. June of 44 – Peel Away Velleity
Anahata (Quarter Stick, 1999)
04. Bellini - Redtail Hawk
Snowing Sun (Monitor Records, 2002)
05. Big Black – Bad Houses
Atomizer (Touch & Go Records, 1986)
06. Del Rey – A Brief Strangle
A Pyramid For the Living (My Pal God Records, 2006)
07. 90 day men – Too Late or Too Dead
Panda Park (Southern Records, 2004)
08. Quix*O*Tic – Tell It Like It Is
Mortal Mirror (2002)

note: A list about dread. Ever notice how an empty mall has that dreadful melancholy in it? The echoes the empty stores the sparse traffic and dim lighting? As a kid you really don’t understand what, but you could sense the malaise, almost fear. Something big is coming and this is not just another day. I thought if I dig my old collections and combine it in weird ways I can replicate the mood. Sort of bitter lost and slight resignation. K. I’ll compile album blurbs on comment section since all the albums are classic. Too lazy to do it right now. This is the beginning of more rock flavor posts.

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