The Merits of Museum Core

Current 93 "Imperium" 

         
                  Genres, genres, genres. Sub-culture.  Sub-divisions. Sub-groups. Whether it's the "drone metal" of a Sunn O))) album or the monistic, "neo folk" vibe of Current 93 sometimes they get blanketed under one term. Sometimes this one term is plainly just experimental. If you go to the experimental section of a record store you know for damn sure you are going to be taking a gamble and either finding that one glorious Nurse with Wound album or your going to be taking your chances on a band from Western Europe for a 25$ CD released by World Serpent that you HEARD was good through the grapevine from your friend who has good taste and loves Death in June. You take it home and take it out of its shrink wrap and wait with baited breath as to what could possibly happen next.  Then you find out that its a a two song album consisting of a long intro of some creaky door way and some bad samples and someone in the next room scrubbing a pot in the sink-- and its dull (but it could have been really good if you did it the right way). So now you want to turn right back to the record store and sell it back. They will give you 8$ gladly because they recognize this band from the friend they trust who likes Der Blutarsch and set it back on the shelves for 25$. Thus the cycle continues. BUT there are some albums out there that could be considered experimental under the blanket term- yet I think they need to be distinguished against the dregs. These are the albums that you keep, yet you dont always listen to all the time. They are bizarre by many means. It is not the album you throw on just to go to Trader Joe's during rush hour traffic. This is an album you revisit and relish for the day or the week. This is not your daily album. This album is a MuseumCore album. An album, an aura, a sound that you don't visit too often but when you do it is inspiring and reinvigorates you. It's like going to a gallery in a museum.

        Going to a museum is often an invigorating experience, mentally and emotionally. Despite it's contents, whether it be death or life, darkness and light. You reel from your experience hours, days or years after- yet it is something you don't do every day and if you should it would lose its merit and it's transformative power.
        A MuseumCore album is an album that will hypnotize you for a week, and then you put it back on the shelf until the next time you decide to visit. You do not even think about selling this album back to your record store because you know some day, some year you will reopen it's doors to it's artistry.

Some albums I have found to be in this experience that of MuseumCore is

Nurse with Wound- Thunderperfect Mind http://nursewithwound1.bandcamp.com/album/thunder-perfect-mind
Sunn O)))--- the Black one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC5H5gnp6uA
Current 93--Imperiumwww.youtube.com/watch?v=o8wlLL-8WDY

Educate your experimentally minded friends with your Museumcore findings. They will thank you for it. Remember they are gamblin' men and ladies and they're ready for most.

What are your favorite Museumcore albums? Would you ever go to a museum and want to listen to Museumcore tunes as you walk through the gallery? I would! Let's make it happen.