Bernie Brooks
, January 28th, 2021 09:44
The Body s latest LP, I ve Seen All I Need To See, is a monstrously heavy, crushingly bleak monument to humankind s ruin, says Bernie Brooks
Today, for the first time, I found it difficult to listen to The Body. Two days ago, on 6 January 2021, armed insurrectionists sacked the US Capitol Building, however buffoonishly, at the behest of an outgoing president, himself a buffoon egged on and enabled for weeks by prominent members of his own party, themselves clowns working to subvert the will of the people as decided in as fair an election as we can manage on this side of the pond. In any case, it was a dark day, a deeply embarrassing, depressing day, of which the ramifications are still unclear. To be sure, now more than ever, the mainline Democratic position of national unity and healing and bipartisanship, as embodied by Joe Biden, seems more quixotic, more naïve than ever. So, as I popped on my headphones and sat down to write this, the