Ghost

Surfwaco presents a cheery new playlist that tells the story of the forthcoming undead conquest of the earth in three parts. Start preparing!

 

Prologue

The Sublime is Disappointingly Elusive – The Caretaker

Part I:  Regret (In which the dead reflect on the living)

Unmarked Grave – David Thomas Broughton
I Saw You in the Wild – Great Lake Swimmers
Suicide Dream 2 – How to Dress Well
Marked – EMA

Part II:  Night Terrors (In which the dead rise from their graves)

Into the Depths – Soft Moon
I Am Made of Chalk - Crystal Castles
Rattling Cage – Forest Swords
In D#5 – Arandel

Interlude

Miserere – [anonymous]

Part III: Empty Streets (In which the sun rises on a land where none but the dead walk the streets)

In the Cold I’m Standing - M83
Yr Love - Holy Other
Distant Lights – Sand Circles
Keep the Streets Empty for Me – Fever Ray

Epilogue

So Run Down - The Caretaker

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Surfwaco’s Top Songs of 2011

Here are the 2011 songs we hold near and dear that will surely grace our retro playlists of the future. The top 20 + 32 honorable mentions and a Spotify playlist to boot. Happy listening after the jump.

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The City

The nameless occupants of The City are productive, entertained, greedy, bored. They fight, work, and procreate. Others are alone in a city of thousands or perhaps millions. Frans Masereel pretty well runs the gamut of human interactions and emotions in his suite of 100 woodcuts published in Germany in 1925. View the entire collection here and start saving for a cabin in the wilderness.

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Nicola Samori

If the painter Francis Bacon lived in 15th century Holland:

Happy Nightmares.

Visit the artist’s website for more.

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Holy Other

Holy Other has been getting a lot of internet buzz for their new EP With U, out June 7. Now you can stream it here. I am coining the phrase Arctic Chillwave to describe this new micro-genre. You heard it here first. Absolutely stunning listen, highly recommended.

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Latent Image #5: I am become death

Here are some stunning images of early nuclear testing from The Atlantic’s In Focus, a well curated photo blog providing context for current events. I suppose the topic at hand was prompted by the recent earthquakes in Japan that have reminded everybody about the latent destructive power of nuclear energy. You can view the full set with more information about each photo here.

The last image is a photograph of physicist Robert Oppenheimer, considered the father of the atomic bomb, working on “The Gadget” in 1945. Twenty years later, he famously described his feelings about his role in the development of nuclear weapons with the following words from a Hindu scripture:

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

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Margaret Durow Update

University of Wisconsin student Margaret Durow isn’t even a photography major. But the Biological Conservation and Environmental Studies major definitely has an eye for it. Check out our earlier post or her website for more.

Here is an appropriate Geotic track to listen to while browsing this loneliness. You can download his new EP for free here.

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Latent Image #4

German photographer Werner Amann seems to occupy a world ruled by dusk. Even his daytime photography retains an eerie world-gone-to-bed feel. Explore the loneliness below and visit his website for more.

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Latent Image #3

The skyward gazing Slovak photographer Branislav Kropilak possesses that rare talent for seeing common objects in ways that most people don’t.  In this series he transforms billboards from annoying, over-sized advertising media into compelling abstract geometric shapes. Some of these might even be space ships – who knows?

View more of his work here.

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Latent Image #2 – Rengim Mutevellioglu

Rengim Mutevellioglu is a photographer living in Paris who was born in Russia in 1991. 1991. Today I learned people born in the nineties are now Grown Up people who are Making Things.

Edit: I had to add this image which I found on his BOOOOOOOM page.

Visit his personal website to view more images.

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