Deptford Goth‘s track Time is stupendous – a druggy, fuzzed-up cry for health, a desperate injection of Benzedrine that fails to quieten the voices, a beautiful swim in a percussion sea that’s tinged with the knowledge of its impending end, a lov– yes, yes, you’re thinking, but where the duck is this song?? I want to listen to this hot sauce while you froth on about it!
Well you can’t. Or rather, you can, but not here. The only place that you can on the internet, as far as I know, is Tim Noakes’ October playlist for Dazed. I heard it there, but can’t find it elsewhere – no Soundcloud, no YouTube, no diddly, no squat.
Why not, I wonder? Presumably for reasons of economics. The track is from Deptford Goth’s four-track debut EP, Youth II, available via Merok, and the other three tracks from that CD are all variously spread around the net, meaning they are listenable and even potentially rippable, without purchase - and if the entire album was so, sales might possibly dip. So best to keep one track back. I can respect that, as much as it’s a shame for this particular blog.
One more thing, though – that same four-track EP is £6.99. Whoa! I mean, okay, I get that a) musicians make little money from releases these days, so it’s wise to maximise profit; and b) Deptford Goth is fabulous – but still, whoa! £7 for four tracks for a not-that-established artist is undeniably a lot. Still, at least you can decide in advance, with Tim Noakes’ help, if you like each amd every track now…
UPDATE! As per Deptford Goth’s comment below, the EP is available at an entirely-bargainalicious £2.49 on iTunes, here. Why is it so much costlier on Merok? Because that’s on vinyl. I’m a dunce, basically.
Thanks for the kind comments.
The E.P. is actually £2.49 from iTunes. Which I think is fair considering the love, time and work involved.
Or you can get this track for £0.99
X
This is alright. I expected it to suck and but it didn’t.
Why did you expect it to suck? It’s so much better than alright. I can prove it too: SOIWT’s mother (a true oracle) likes it: http://www.someofitwastrue.com/2010/12/26/deptford-goth/
It’s not my thing… It’s ok.