| May. 8th, 2012 @ 10:58 am Musical Extravaganza! |
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Current Mood:  bouncy
Current Music: Vertical Horizon - Best I Ever Had
I should be doing other things right now, but instead I'm busy being too excited by all the new music I just got!
First, the new Nightwish album, Imaginaerum (okay, "new", it came out in January but I was poor then). I cannot wait to get home and blast this thing at unsafe decibel levels that scare my cats - it's my favorite symphonic metal band recording an album that they claim was primarily influenced by Neil Gaiman, Tim Burton and Salvador Dali, and which contains a thirteen-minute orchestral epic based on Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself". It is like an unopened bag of delicious candy for my ears.
Then, Emilie Autumn finally put out the first singles for her new album, Fight Like a Girl, which will be out some time in the next few months, she teases. I already love Autumn and her previous albums. This one she describes as "an operatic feminist treatise set inside an insane asylum". My glee is overflowing, and these singles will be fighting with Nightwish for equal playtime as soon as I get out of my office (where for some reason they are not big fans of classical industrial pseudotechno with harpsichords. Weirdos).
And finally, I just discovered that Vienna Teng, one of my favorite singers ever ever EVER, wrote a musical this year (The Fourth Messenger) and is working on getting people to help fund it for its inaugural run. It's about the life of Siddhartha Buddha, except set in the modern day with the Buddha as a woman. I want to donate all the donations, but instead I'll have to be modest within my means and enjoy the free audio clips on the musical's site. My excitement is at vibration level.
Workday, I need you to end now. |