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EP: Tom Coward – Have a Word With Yourself

In the span of five songs, Tom Coward derides, decides, decries, and derives whatever he can from the world and its residents on his debut EP, Have a Word With Yourself, which in and of itself is a mockery of a parental reprimand reconfigured to be self-appointed as a message to anybody who listens to the songs: have a word with yourself. Confront and admonish yourself.

Album: funeral plain – negation of negation

On Negation of Negation, over a whirring, staticky noise-rock score, Chicago-based band, Funeral Plain proposes that destruction is essentially a form of change. And losing yourself implicitly raises the possibility that you will find yourself; and that when you do, you will discover nothing, or in lyricist, Jonny Gill’s words, ‘no-thing.’ This record argues, as Jonny Gill told me, that there is no innate being, just a continual process of becoming. But first you have to lose yourself.