And my dad was like” You can each buy a tape to listen to in the car” – we had Walkmans. And so part of the deal was that before we left we got to go to the local record store which was called Record Express. I think the big one for me was, I can't remember how old I was, but I was going on a trip with my dad, and we were going to the Baseball Hall of Fame: me, my two younger brothers and my dad and my grandfather.
Thank you all for being here, and enjoy.Īnd I'd like to begin with kind of the question I always begin with: Do you remember a time, maybe a kid or a teenager, when you heard band or a song for the first time that really changed kind of how you felt about music?
1 of amazing local, hardcore, metal, noise, and neofolk. My aim has been to use whatever support we can get to produce interviews like these, focusing on the art and life of that art, as well as other projects supporting our local scene, such as the newly launched music compilation MILIM KASHOT VOL. You can follow us on any one of our social media outlets ( Facebook, Instagram, Spotify) and also, if so inclined, support us on Patreon. The magic HANL creates, a melancholic beauty hiding a knife's edge, is all their own, as they are a part of that select group of artists that are not the sum of their influences, but transcend and transmute them into a different kind of beauty.Īs always, before proceeding to my conversation with Dan Barrett I would like to encourage any who are interested to read the rest of this ongoing project, which will probably be running until the end of the year (and probably spilling into the beginning of 2020), with a lot more exciting conversations to be published. In many ways the explanation behind all the melodic chaos that HANL produce in The Unnatural World is quite simple: it's what happens when the American tradition of the dreamy, heartbroken, self-recorded folk/indie artist collides with the European grandeur of such influences as Depeche Mode or even Darkthrone. And The Unnatural World is where much of the heavy lifting required to combine all of these unlikely components takes place, a kind of refining or streamlining of the HANL aesthetic – for all its ambiguities – in the wake of the massive slow-burn popularity of their now mythic debut, Deathconsciousness. Part of that may have todo with the fact that HANL are either the least pretentious pretentious band, or the most pretentious unpretentious band in recent memory, mixing the drama, size, and artistic courage of larger-than-life genres and traditions of musical experimentation with a bedroom-sized isolation, angst, and heartbreak. The Beating Heart: Have a Nice Life occupy a unique position in the contemporary music landscape, appealing to groups as seemingly disparate as synthpop loves to black metal and drone enthusiasts. It is also their first release with the San Francisco label The Flenser, while also being released on Enemies List Home Recordings, the label set up by Macuga and Barrett to release the music of HANL and that of their various side projects.
HAVE A NICE LIFE THE UNNATURAL WORLD FULL
The Bare Bones: The Unnatural World is the second full length by Connecticut post-punk/drone duo Have a Nice Life, comprised of Tim Macuga and Dan Barrett.
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