Have A Nice Life Cover Low’s “When I Go Deaf” as part of the tribute album from The Flenser & Friends, Your Voice Is Not Enough, out later this year.
See Have A Nice Life at Sick New World this Saturday.
Have A Nice Life's Voids demo compilation will be out May 17th.
Photo by: Cam Smith.
Your Voice is Not Enough stands as a heartfelt tribute to Low, a project born out of a conversation with Planning For Burial’s Thom Wasluck and The Flenser. Inspired by the nuanced beauty of Low's discography, what began as a discussion on ranking favorite albums blossomed into a collaborative effort that brought together our close-knit group of Flenser artists and friends. Regrettably, the compilation took shape before the tragic passing of Mimi Parker, and in honoring her legacy, they dedicate this album to her memory, celebrating the profound impact she left on the music world. The tribute features eight cover songs by Flenser artists and friends: Cremation Lily, Holy Water, Midwife and Amulets, Allison Lorenzen, Kathryn Mohr, Planning for Burial, Drowse featuring Lula Asplund, and Have A Nice Life.
Today, Have A Nice Life share their haunting, lo-fi take on "When I Go Deaf." Tim Macuga of the band comments, "I joined an America Online mixtape exchange as a teenager when my mom first got us internet. The older gentleman I was paired with sent a tape I still have with mostly tunes by Low, Swans, and Godspeed. I sent him 40 youth crew hardcore tracks and I think he bummed.”
With the broader adoption of the internet around the turn of the century, how people would engage with and discover underground music changed forever. As a result of the new digital era, DIY was now worldwide, and no band embraced this new frontier better than Have A Nice Life.
Have A Nice Life is a union between Dan Barrett and Tim Macuga that was forged in the name of sonic exploration and emotional exorcism. Formed in the year 2000, the Middletown, CT-based pair would, throughout the 00s, self-release and share a number of demos and home recordings via early social media channels as well as establish its in-house label ENEMIES LIST HOME RECORDINGS. These first steps set in motion Have A Nice Life’s rise to renown as an icon of underground music in the internet age, culminating with the release of its pivotal 2008 debut album, Deathconsciousness. Through word of mouth and online discussion, Deathconsciousness became subject to viral praise thanks to its synthesis of bleak post-punk, lo-fi shoegaze, and carpets of hypnotic drone music. Eventually, this humble self-released project would attain the status of a post-internet cult classic, amassing Have A Nice Life a fervent online following that the band would interact with in kind, and most recently land the album opener "A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut" to hit #30 on Billboard's TikTok Top 50 (a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the US based on creations, video views and user engagement).
In an effort to thank and continue to engage with Have A Nice Life’s internet cult following, Barrett and Macuga would regularly share links to old demos, works in progress, and outtakes from the recording of Deathconsciousness. Over time, a group of fans would compile these demos into an unofficial release. Dubbed Voids, the fan-made compilation several alternate takes of tracks from Deathconsciousness, as well as a handful of early versions of songs that would appear on Have A Nice Life’s two following albums, The Unnatural World and Sea of Worry. Over a decade since its initial, unofficial release in 2011, The Flenser will reissue Voids for the first time ever in an official capacity in physical form on May 17th, just after the band's highly-anticipated slot at this year's Sick New World Fest in Las Vegas this Saturday, April 27th.
Look for more news soon.
Your Voice Is Not Enough, track listing:
- Weight of Water by Cremation Lily
- Sunflower by Holy Water
- Do You Know How to Waltz by Midwife and Amulets
- Hey Chicago by Drowse ft Lula Asplund
- Cut by Kathryn Mohr
- Words by Allison Lorenzen
- Murderer by Planning for Burial
- When I Go Deaf by Have a Nice Life
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