Spiritual Conspiracy - Send Me To The Electric Chair (FULL ALBUM)

Published 2024-05-23

#lofimusic #synthwave #coversong #darkwave

Full album here: spiritualconspiracy.bandcamp.com/album/send-me-to-…

NOTE: Spiritual Conspiracy made SEND ME TO THE ELECTRIC CHAIR last summer, though some of the tracks date back further like, “Devil Out of Hell.”

Apparently SC is a bit of a movie buff (but I’ve heard he’s afraid of the dark), and years ago, when he watched Raising Arizona, he broke down in tears when he heard Holly Hunter singing The Everly Brothers “Down In The Willow Road’ with Nathan Jr in her arms.

So it goes, SC said he always wanted to make an album of electronic, darkwave-type folk standards and murder ballads.

Now, it’s not my place to say if he’s succeeded, but maybe we should send him to the electric chair for trying.

Until we meet again,
The Caretaker.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Good Morning. (Sample from an alpha banker’s hallucination during Norwegian television show, “Exit”)

2. Devil Out Of Hell. (Northern California folk ballad from the 1930s about sending your annoying wife to hell and the Devil sending her back to you.)

3. Send Me To The Electric Chair. (reinterpretation of a late 1920s blues song performed by Dinah Washington about murdering your cheating lover. Dinah always carried a gun, but a fatal drug overdose killed her at 39.)

4. Blue Crystal Fire. (reinterpretation of Robbie Basho’s 1978 song about his mystical communion with nature, but who later tragically died at 45 from “unintentional whiplash” during a visit to his chiropractor.)

5. No Love. (reinterpretation of a 1958 song of Johnny Mathis. Mathis received death threats when he opened up about his sexuality)

6. The Scaffold. (Holly Hunter and Everly Brothers “Down In The Willow Garden” about man facing the gallows for stabbing his lover to death, then throwing her in the river.)

7. How Lonely Can One Be. (reinterpretation of Teresa Brewer’s 1953 hit, How Lonely Can One Be about waiting for a lover who never shows. Brewer was America's favorite female singer for a few brief years, then her mainstream popularity vanished after the British Invasion.)

8. Unfaithful. (reinterpretation of Hank Snow’s 1953 Unfaithful about a sap who can't get over a cheating lover who humiliated him in front of the whole town.)

9. Surrender. (reinterpretation of Sinatra’s 1947 interpretation of jazz standard about surrendering body and soul to another.)

10. Dirty Old Town. (reinterpretation of Ewan MacColl’s 1949 Dirty Old Town about a working class boy who finds love in a dirty old town.)

11. All The Pretty Little Horses. (reinterpretation of traditional American lullaby that a mother sings to her child before bed, which later became the name of a Cormac McCarthy novel.)