Jason DiEmilio committed suicide in 2006, his death hastened by tinnitus and painful sensitivity to sound. It’s assumed his conditions resulted from the atonal, high volume, feedback drones he wrenched from his guitar as The Azusa Plane, but DiEmilio’s music always sounded like someone trying to block something out with clouds of vibrating bliss.
Here’s two CDs and sixty-seven bonus mp3s suggesting My Bloody Valentine or The Velvet Underground, their pop song shapes erased, and all that abstract sonic dressing dragged center-stage, where it will carry whatever emotional weight you care to place upon it.
Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Leach Juice, Twitter
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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John Robins, Comedian
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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Al Murray, Comedian
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World Without End, Twitter
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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Alwyn, Digiguide.tv
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Sam Rooney, Youtube
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Slothy Matt, Twitter
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Idrie, Youtube
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Robert Gavin, Twitter
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Jackmumf, Twitter
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Jamespearse, Twitter
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
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Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com