Skeletunes
ISSUE #174
My world has always frightened me. Every choice shuts the door on another, and every day contorts itself into some shape I’ve never seen. Fear is a reaction to loss of control—we must flee or fight to regain it.
For all my terror, I find delight in apprehending the grotesque. It’s the illness we ignore that tends to kill us, after all. So let us stare our specters in the eye—we’ll be dancing step-in-step with them for the next few weeks.
Start digging around in Halloween music and before long you’ll turn a weird corner: there’s a lot of surf guitar. That strange kitsch has fueled everything from Friday the 13th to Rocky Horror. This band, Messer Chups, has distilled it to its purest form.