Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Nora Keyes - Songs to Cry By for the Golden Age of Nothing (2004)


Esoteric musical dementia. Warped old time-y sideshow music drones as Keyes sings in a shrill vibrato about the many miseries of life -- big and small -- and cackles like a goddamn lunatic. As depressing as it is bizarre, Songs to Cry By for the Golden Age of Nothing is a guaranteed mood killer.

Track listing:
1. Tomb Song
2. Small Apart
3. Look at You, You're Ugly
4. Cauliflower
5. My Child
6. Old Pal
7. Excreted from Our Mother's Womb
8. Old Folks
9. The Show Is Over

Look at you, you're heinous
Your face is like an anus


More music made by possible witches:
Ruth White -
Flowers of Evil (1969)
Diamanda Galas -
The Litanies of Satan (1982)

3 comments:

  1. That's awesome!! thank you for posting this gem!

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  2. I've known Nora for nearly a decade but didn't know this album existed! She's still a fixture of L.A.'s weirdo music underground and still cackles with the best of 'em on occasion. Mysterium Tremens is maybe equally eerie, but in a much more uplifting register: https://norakeyes.bandcamp.com/album/mysterium-tremens

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