#the birdwatcher's guide to atrocity

[the-better-rainbow-unikitty]

Me: *is depressed*

Me: *listens to the entirety of The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity*

Me: *still depressed but now it's ok to be*

[dancemusicformiserablegoths]

Listen to the sand Listen to the ground There's always gonna be another way out I am your shade in the morning You are my shadow at dusk And the music our footprints write is permanent More permanent than sound Seeming - Permanent [The Birdwatcher's Guide To Atrocity]

[nereb-and-dungalef]

coping mechanisms where whether or not it brings you comfort is a litmus test for how bad you're doing tho

[notquiteaghost]

today (2nd december 2022) is bandcamp friday! as it was also just spotify wrapped day, and spotify pays musicians Jack Fucking Shit, i am gonna put my money where my anti-capitalist mouth is & link some albums i listened to a shit ton this year. you should check them out

brave faces everyone by spanish love songs: punk rock for the modern-day broke twenty-something, [pretentious bastard voice] a cohesive album with obvious care put into Themes and Flow, fav lyric; But if I burn this place down, / We’d have some heat. / At least I’m seeing things more positively, / Because I swear to god, I’m an optimist.

t.i.a.p.f.y.h. by left at london: hashtag Mental Illness Music. nat left at london is one of the greatest musicians alive rn. fav lyric; “How you’re gonna live like this?” / How you’re gonna live yourself?

things that hurt by cultdreams: self-described sad lo-fi punk, anthems for being full of rage but also real fucking exhausted, fav song; repent, regress

weightbearer by squalloscope: electronic folk for tumblr users with poetry tags. the things squalloscope does with words make me want to eat their songs whole. fav lyric; i am mold, rot, and rust / i have been dying since birth / i was buried alive / dug myself out of the earth

4 o'clock in the afternoon by chase petra: quarter-life crisis pop rock, songs for your 2PM daily breakdown, fav lyric; simulation, I’m on the run from Keanu now / but who cares if its not real / because I can still feel

we live here by bob vylan: grime punk with teeth, doubly recommend if you're british, fav lyric; Voices in the cage are getting way too loud to sleep through / Just fuel for the hatred in my head / Constantly uncomfortable and socially inept

lowlight by rosie tucker: self-described non sequitur equestrian, gutpunch lyricism for 'sad person with guitar' enjoyers, fav lyric; I am a beautiful machine / One part copper, two part dreaming / Hardwired, heartbroken circuitry

the birdwatcher's guide to atrocity by seeming: post-gothic post-human post-folk pop, songs you can build a house and live in, fav lyric; Like a mantis I am praying / Out of habit without saying / Anything

honourable mention, of course, to the mountain goat's bleed out, but i am assuming if you're reading this i don't need to sell you on the mountain goats. anyway go see if your favourite artists are on bandcamp

[myfriendskickass]

@vergess

okay the albums i want to shove at your face and have you liveblog for monies is:

the birdwatcher's guide to atrocity

and

monster

by seeming.

they have a bandcamp where at least they have all the lyrics, you might need youtube music to actually listen to the albums or at the very least, clear bandcamp cookies every so often because iirc bandcamp made some changes.

rules if you decide to do this:

these albums are about the pandemic and the state of the world happening during that time, trigger warnings for uh. suicide, violence, pandemic trauma etc. if you can't handle that i'll give you money for nothing lol

listen to the birdwatcher's guide first, monster is a companion album to it

the genre is industrial/goth, so theres a lot of distortion in the vocals. i don't THINK that's screamo but you are allowed to skip any song you cannot tolerate and if you give this the old college try i will still give you moneys

:( i can't pay your whole rent but i thought this was a fun way to help support you and if you just need money rn i will def give you some

[untiltheskyturnsredinthesunrise]

Listen to the sand Listen to the ground There’s always gonna be another way out I am your shade in the morning You are my shadow at dusk And the music our footprints write is permanent More permanent than sound

Seeming - Permanent [The Birdwatcher’s Guide To Atrocity]

[quixoticanarchy]

my problem is i seem to think that listening to albums with titles like ‘the birdwatcher’s guide to atrocity’ is going to fix me

[keeskiwi]

like a mantis, I am praying out of habit, without saying anything

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

Anyway it’s very funny that in 2020 two of my favorite bands dropped a new album on the same day and one of them was Down in the Weeds Where The World Once Was and when talking about it Conor Oberst hemmed and hawed over whether it was His Place to make political music and the album wound up being really mid and the other one was The Birdwatcher’s Guide to Atrocity, a very good album in which the first single was, among other things, this:

[loverlylight]

Oh yeah, I was looking at the Seeming twitter account, and it looks like this was posted when The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity was released:

(I'm "underachieving goths")

[leviathan-supersystem]

Top 60 Darkwave and Industrial Albums and EPs of 2020

1: E U P H O R I A- Future Faces

2: Monument- Molchat Doma

3: Curtains- Truth Coming Out of Her Well

4: At The Stake- Rosegarden Funeral Party

5: Gathering Swans- Choir Boy

6: Die Notwendigkeit der Notwendigkeit- PAAR

7: Peaceful As Hell- Black Dresses

8: LP II- Linera Aspera

9:  Kogarashi Tales- 9ToEarth

10: Stray- Bambara

11: Dead Kids, R.I.P. City- Soft Kill

12: Deception Island II- NNHMH

13: Killed By Roses- NAKED

14: REINCARNATED- REIN

15: Thin Skies- Bootblacks

16: Apathy- Astrophysics

17: Heavenly Rhythms for the Uninitiated- True Body

18: Don’t Run From The Fire- Minuet Machine

19: Monsters- Empathy Test

20: Vicious Pastimes- House Of Harm

21: The Tacks (s/t)- The Tacks

22: Methods Of Dreaming- Hawksmoor

23: After The Rehearsal- Jackson VanHorn

24: Coping Mechanisms- Ky Voss

25: Predestiny- Mareux

26: Extinction- Zanias

27: The Flesh Of The World- Uboa

28: 20 Years- Sure

29: Silent Places- Houses of Heaven

30: Limpwristed- Picturesque Ruins

31: Bodies- hørd

32: New Signs of Life- Death Bells

33: Boys- Cower

34: Shadow- Fearing

35: RIki (s/t)- Riki

36: You Want It Real- Lie

37: Eons- Psychic Guilt 

38: Nostalgia- Spectres

39: Lilith- ZAH

40: The Birdwatcher’s Guide to Atrocity- Seeming

41: Abstraction- Schonwald

42: Second Seduction- Panic Priest

43: The Night We Raise- Korine

44: Chimeres- Blind Delon

45: Zone- The Mall

46: Sometimes It Feels Like Chains- Live For You

47: Deep Wave Data Dark Web Daemons- Trevor Something

48: Visions of Bodies Being Burned- clipping.

49: Pandora’s Box- Bari Hari

50: Colours- The Secret French Postcards

51: Zeher- Aurat

52: Modern Anguish- Visceral Anatomy

53: Profess- Woven In

54: End Credit- Ghost Cop

55: Pleiades- Velvet Velour

56: Gain- New Today

57: Faraway Neighbor (s/t)- Faraway Neighbor

58: The Upstairs Museum- Swan Wash

59: /// 1- Dove Armitage

60: Blood Pact (s/t)- Blood Pact 

[seemingmusic]

The Birdwatcher’s Guide to Atrocity

FINALLY, FINALLY IT’S HERE: YOUR EXCUSE TO GO PERMANENTLY MAD.

SEEMING’S THIRD ALBUM IS RELEASED.  

BUY IT HERE.

STREAM IT HERE.

Menacing but vulnerable. Furious but intimate. Co-produced with renowned avant-garde percussionist Sarah Hennies, The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity shines eerie light through the cracks of life under capitalism. In effortless accents of chamber pop, postpunk, and clattering synthpop, the album radiates political revolt, personal remembrance, and disarming compassion. Never before has Seeming's post-anthropocene futurity been more appropriate.  

Seeming is the project of Alex Reed, with Aaron Fuleki. They had previously been in the band ThouShaltNot. Alex is the author of a 33 1/3 book as well as Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music.  The band has recorded with Merzbow, Sammus, Bill Drummond, Alphaville, and many others.

Seeming’s previous LPs are Madness & Extinction and SOL: A Self-Banishment Ritual.

[burlveneer-music]

Seeming - The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity - new synthpop/industrial LP from a scholar of the genre (Alex Reed, author of Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music)

Menacing but vulnerable. Furious but intimate. Co-produced with renowned avant-garde percussionist Sarah Hennies, The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity shines eerie light through the cracks of life under capitalism. In effortless accents of chamber pop, postpunk, and clattering synthpop, the album radiates political revolt, personal remembrance, and disarming compassion. Never before has Seeming's post-anthropocene futurity been more appropriate. Highlights of the record's tightly-wound 37-minutes include: • the harrowing tempo experiment of opener "The Fates" • a lush plea against disappearance in "Remember to Breathe" • frantic pop singles in "Go Small" and "Someday Lily" • the industrial banger "End Studies" Seeming is the project of Alex Reed, with Aaron Fuleki. They had previously been in the band ThouShaltNot. Alex is the author of a 33 1/3 book as well as Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music. For fans of Low, Depeche Mode, Chelsea Wolfe, Hurts, Einstürzende Neubauten, Twin Shadow, Emma Ruth Rundle, IAMX, Leonard Cohen, ANOHNI, HEALTH. The 2-CD release contains an entire bonus LP, MONSTER

[raevenlywrites]

2 5 18 for the end of the yr asks!

2. Album of the year?

@seemingmusic Birdwatchers Guide To Atrocity. It got me through the back half of this year

https://youtu.be/9Mo3euMRaro

5. TV show of the year?

I FINALLY finished Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yes, the show that was popular when I was in high school 20 years ago. Fuck off, it's done and I never have to watch past season 3 ever again

18. Memorable meal

I learned the secret to good tamales this year. I felt connected to ancestors I've never met and something went right in my soul when I made them