The darkly formidable Connecticut cult duo Have A Good Life don’t make music fairly often. Prior to now 16 years, they’ve launched three albums, all the time with no less than 5 years between them; the final one was 2019’s Sea Of Fear. They don’t play dwell fairly often, both. This hasn’t stopped their legend from rising. Proper now, Have A Good Life’s 2008 monitor “A Fast One Earlier than The Everlasting Worm Devours Connecticut” goes viral on TikTok. So when Have A Good Life launch new music, it’s an enormous day. Right this moment, they’ve acquired a brand new monitor, and it’s a part of their label’s salute to Low.
The Flenser, the heavy and experimental music label that launched Have A Good Life to the world, is within the means of releasing the tribute compilation Your Voice Is Not Sufficient, one monitor at a time. It’s a salute to slowcore pioneers Low, whose Mimi Parker handed away in 2022. (Parker’s husband and bandmate Alan Sparhawk just lately introduced the solo album White Roses, My God.) We’ve already posted Allison Lorenzen’s model of “Phrases,” Planning For Burial’s tackle “Assassin,” and Drowse and Lula Asplund’s “Hey Chicago” cowl. Now, Have A Good Life have supplied up an eight-minute interpretation of Low’s “Once I Go Deaf.”
“Once I Go Deaf” comes from Low’s 2005 album The Nice Destroyer, and it’s a shatteringly attractive music. Have A Good Life’s cowl is dank and funereal. It sounds prefer it was recorded in a cathedral, with sounds echoing off of partitions and ceilings. Have A Good Life do their very own model of the music’s tingly guitar-crunch second, however even that appears to burble up from a faraway place. It’s fairly a departure from Low’s crystalline authentic, however it seems like a becoming tribute. Under, take heed to Have A Good Life’s model of “Once I Go Deaf” and the Low authentic.
The total model of Your Voice Is Not Sufficient doesn’t have a launch date, however it’s popping out on the Flenser.