Saturday, August 1, 2026

Song(s) of the Day # 4,467 Land Whales

 


It's 2026. Where are we going? Your guess is every bit as good as mine. I have no crystal ball and I'm just back from my free eye test in tolwn where the optician said to me that the world would be completely unrecognisable in ten years time. I suspect he may be right. I needed new glasses but didn't buy any . Given the exorbitant cost.

I'm an EFL Teacher. I don't kid myself otherwise any longer. What you get in an EFL teacher is that they don't know very much about anything but a little bit about virtually everything. Enough anyhow to keep the conversation going. 

I'm reasonably conversant and interested in music too. Hence this blog, which was launched in 2013. I started writing about the records I bought when I started building a record collection back in the Eighties. Now I try to focus on 'new' music. Although some of it doesn't sound completely 'new' to me,

Take Land Whales. Formed in La Habana in Cuba in 2021. They used to go under the name of Hey Joni, which tells you what you need to know. 

If I consider myself remptely knowledgeable about anything apart from the rudiments of English lexis and grammarowaLand Whales are fond of Sonic Youth. They used to call themselves Hey Joni . They owe a debt to that band which they will never fully pay and their latest album How To Make A Breakfast sounds like a dogs dinner of distortion. feedback and inchoate rage in Sonic Youth's best tradition. You have to hane it to Land Whales. They're doing their legacy proud.. As someone else said 'It's a dirty job but someone's got to do it.' Land Whales sound far from beached. 

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