That allows each track to stand up on its own strengths and merit, while also encompassing its own identity, characteristics and adding much depth and mystery. While not a concept album, the CD is themed on a central idea, with stories revolving around it. Songs were also tweaked and edited during the recording and mixing process, and before long ‘Cold Moon Over Babylon’ was born. The band was formed in 2010 and they wasted no time in recording their debut album, before the ink had even dried on the pieces of paper that contains the scribbles of lyrics and music. Vulvagun comprises of founder and guitarist/vocalist/keyboardist Wayne Dwyer, drummer Chris Phillips, guitarist George Larin and last but not least, bassist Evan Harris (of Black Majesty and Eyefear fame). Any power metalhead’s bread and butter really. Vulvagun’s debut album, released in May of 2011 is entitled ‘Cold Moon Over Babylon’ and it is a large slice of intricate and dark power metal, with splashes of Maiden-esque progressive metal, soaring melodic vocals and splintering guitar riffs, hooks and solos. A Melbourne power/prog metal band sporting one of the best and most unique (and possibly lowbrow) names in the entire metal universe, Vulvagun, have burst onto the local metal scene and are backed by many years of musical experience.
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Tolentino “hasn’t spent an August in the city in quite a few years.” Turns out she might be the most intelligent person alive. Kirkus Reviews has called her “a key voice of her generation.” Rebecca Solnit has called her “the best young essayist at work in the U.S.” The Guardian has called her “incisive, with a gift for unexpected intuitive turns and juxtapositions.” But should there be any lingering doubt, this might clinch the notion for you: When Vanity Fair suggested that, ahead of the release of her first book, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (out August 6), she do a guide to surviving New York City, where she currently lives, during the month of August, objectively the worst month in the city, her book publicist informed me that she couldn’t do that even if she wanted to. You might have heard lately that Jia Tolentino is one of the most intelligent writers of this moment. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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In Night Train, the urban decay of 80s-era New York City meets hordes of feral cats, a Subway Slasher, the occult, and an underground labyrinth full of primeval and modern monsters that threaten to swallow whole a four-hundred-year-old city and its inhabitants. In the bedrock beneath New York, beautiful news reporter Lya Marsden and hard-bitten detective Michael Corvino enter an eerie maze of abandoned tunnels, searching for a train that vanished with all aboard-over half a century ago.īut under the concrete maze of skyscrapers and tourists, below the peep shows and the penthouses, within the clammy darkness, and around the next turn-an unholy evil waits to disgorge violence and blood. to be met by an unlikely troupe ready to save the lives and soul of their city. Under the subways’ roar, out of the deep, wet caves, comes the fury from Hell . . . 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The excerpt we’re revealing for you today is for one heck of a hilarious and powerful book. Here for a good time, not for a long time. ( Titles, titles, titles, announced in my best Robert Baratheon voice.) Lady Mulgrave, whose preferred name is Pip, or also literally any name that isn’t “Lady” Mulgrave, is a bit of a playboy with a Peter Pan complex. We’re introduced to a very flawed, sometimes infuriating protagonist Lady Phillipa Anne Marion Farne-Sacksley of Mulgrave. That said, from the synopsis I was generally expecting a pretty straightforward continuation but with more royalty, angst and motorcycles. (I somehow missed the release of Modern English, the second book – more on that later.) It doesn’t matter much if you read the three English books out of order, but it’s always fun to have that experience of already knowing some of the established cast. Plain English, the third book, features many of the same characters. I’d already read Full English last year, the first book in the English series, which is set in the small English town of Amberwick. But Spangler’s writing is much more diverse than that label gives them credit for, and their newest book Plain English showcases that range. In my mind, I often refer to Spangler as “the author who writes sports romance,” and yeah, I’m a big sucker for a feel-good sports story. Rachel Spangler is probably one of my most read authors of sapphic romance because they are so darn reliable. |