Heavy shoes
I will be posting about my trip, but I'd like to direct people to Cosmo Lee's fine interview with Year of No Light, whose Nord really is a thing of beauty. I mention it for two reasons: First, for the weird (because irrelevant) but palpable thrill of finding out that a band whose album you like has some of the same influences you do (Low, Philip K. Dick, et al), and secondly because it has a link to one of the best Joy Division covers I've ever heard. It's also interesting to see them throw in with shoegaze as opposed to metal.