Kpunk, brilliant, on The Cure, making a good case for the death-wishful trilogy of Seventeen Seconds/Faith/Pornography as an impressive achievement rather oppressive nullity.

Reminded me that I've been meaning, and repeatedly forgetting, to mention here the fact that
DB and Stakka, operating under the name Ror-Shak, recently put out a drum'n'bass version of "A Forest." Despite the Kosheeny female vocals, it works surprisingly well--the chasing-a-phantasm propulsion of the original suiting the tunnel-vision linearity of modern D&B perfectly.