Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Koi No Yokan - Music To Die To

Just added the Deftones' Koi No Yokan to my ever Working List Of The Most Beautiful Albums list.



Hard, gentle, transporting, glittering, dark. mysterious and revealing in all the right ways. Like you might want the ultimate lover to be. Let this take me away for hours, into the dark, to the color-bleeding edges, to sweat and the flavor of crystal and whips, of tongue and teeth and silk. For hours and hours and hours. Let me lay here, let me drink, let me burn and breathe in and close my eyes and fall. The cover art looks like a calculated galaxy or strip joint. Perfection. Take me everywhere you go.

The beauty of the phrase Koi No Yokan itself not even being of consideration, until you think that it means this:

"It can [be] defined [as] the sense can have upon first meeting another person that the two of them are going to fall in love. In other words, it is the knowledge one has that he/she is going to fall in love with another person. This differs from the idea “love at first sight” in that it does not imply that the feeling of love exists, rather it refers to the knowledge that a future love is inevitable"
(source: http://www.hightowerflashes.com/untranslateablewords.html)

...then the waves just wash over you. As Amy Blue says in The Doom Generation, holding up a This Mortal Coil Album, "I wish I could just crawl inside here and disappear..."

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