Soundscape #2: Hell Is Other People

One of the most iconic images of the 20th Century, The Scream, by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, was recovered a couple of days ago after being literally ripped off the walls of the Munch museum in Oslo 2 years ago. With The Scream, Munch has portrayed humanity's sense of existential angst and dread as something immediately primal and instinctual. I wonder with our increasingly busy lives now, do we even have time to feel this horror?

This week's soundscape explores this dread we undoubtedly feel, some more than others. I think that the dread and horror that sometimes have us pinned by the throats have somewhat become more introspective, a consequence perhaps of our desensitization towards the very real horrors of the world taking place all around us, all the time.



Track Listing:
1. (0:00) As The Poets Affirm - Polyhymnia (Buy I Want To Tell My Heart To You But I Cannot Say English)
2. (5:05) Portishead - Sour Times (Buy Dummy)
3. (9:18) Nirvana - Lithium (Buy From The Muddy Banks of The Wishka)
4. (13:35) Pavement - Serpentine Pad (Buy Wowee Zowee)
5. (14:51) Nine Inch Nails - Closer (Buy The Downward Spiral)
6. (20:64) Radiohead - You And Whose Army (Buy Amnesiac)
7. (23:75) PJ Harvey - Down By The Water (Black Session) (Buy To Bring You My Love)
8. (26:92) REM - E-Bow The Letter (Buy New Adventures In Hi-Fi)
9. (31:09) The Flaming Lips - Waitin' For A Superman (Buy The Soft Bulletin)
10 (36:33) My Dad Vs Yours - Law Of Unintended Consequence (Buy Winning Hearts and Minds)