Is it possible to hear the sound of approaching doom? Does approaching doom sound kind of like room tone, but darker? Can we hear approaching doom squeezing a singer’s nerves tightly in its clutches? Can we physically sense the presence of approaching doom as it plays maestro to an ill-fated orchestra?
For instance, some people seem convinced that they could hear Kurt Cobain’s demons lurking in the shadows of Unplugged In New York. Yet how many of those claims come from keen human intuition, and how many are simply embellished memories revised by tragedy? Hard to tell. Continue reading ‘Classic and Unappreciated: Cambodian Rocks’