Thurston Moore unleashed this new single, Hashish, on Friday.
If you’ve been keeping up with his mainline solo material from the last several years (TMG & previosly, Chelsea Light Moving), then Hashish holds no surprises for you. It’s the same kind of oddly melodic, dissonant & atmospheric guitar music he’s been perfecting since 2013’s excellent Chelsea Light Moving. To me, this is a winning formula & each release seems to be incrementally better than the last as he, & his increasingly tight backing band, refine this winning formula.
Like his last album, Rock N Roll Consciousness, the lyrics for Hashish were written by Moore’s friend, the poet Radieux Radio. This is a fruitful relationship. Radio’s words seem to fit like a puzzle piece into Moore’s sonic architecture.
Day or night no one knows
Feel the full effect of this dose
Is it day or night I just don’t know
Hashish eater Please be patient
Feel it girl, our hallucination
Feel the full effect of this dose
It is in you girl, my repose
She’s the haven of my soul
Is it day or night
We just don’t know
She’s my only friend, my soul, my hope
Hashish scarab come tonight
Will you bring your elusive light
Her love is all that I am needing now
Her drug is all that I am feeling now
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