The Cultural Decay

 The Cultural Decay - Eight Ways to Start a Day

 

An album that tied my night of reading Brave New World analysis and scribbling down ideas on my journal perfectly. I felt almost immediately at home within the discordant vocals and the ever swaying melodies that feel like an easy current and a dance between punches, a drunken stroll and a blissful swim across oceans of strobe lights, a whimsical violence at times poking at times stabbing, a timeless cold wave post punk atmosphere I could fall back into. In 1981 they released their 7" single with the songs Brave New World and End of The Corridor. In 1982 their 12" ep with Business Business/Fragile Object and Song of Joy. Then, in 2009, they release the album "Eight Ways to Start a Day" which essentially compiles everything (singles, demos) a bit more info can be found on their bandcamp! I think the last few songs, and how this collage of an album blends together in a stream of more disarray leaves quite a finish, an after taste of punk overbearing..somehow feels like staring at a well endlessly for hours. I wonder if anyone's uploaded the booklet online, haven't checked yet.