This is the inaugural upload of an new mp3 blog, curated by the krlx staff, that will mine and put to mp3 some treasures of the Record Libe. Expect no thematic continuity beyond interesting music pre-1997 or so. Our first offering is Deception Bay’s 1993 debut album Fortune Days.
Deception Bay released two albums and an EP in the late 80s and early 90s on the LA imprint Independent Project Music. Fortune Days is their first full length release, from mid 1993. They’re a goth rock band that favors cyclical rhythms, chanted vocals, and drifting, distorted lead guitar. Like a fucked up Calvin Johnson, or Can post-apocalypse. Would be really good for walking home after a big fight with your partner through a melting city, fending off stray dogs with an improvised dog fighting tool (hockey stick with broken glass glued to it, maybe) on your way back to the sewer where the last humans live.