I HAVE A SPECIAL PLAN FOR THIS WORLD

The first EP of the 2000s by David Tibet's CURRENT 93 project finds him delivering another round of poetry with various field recordings, tape music and dark ambient music decorating the background. A 22-minute single track I HAVE A SPECIAL PLAN FOR THIS WORLD features Tibet narrating the poem of the same name by the author Thomas Ligotti who was most famous in the 1950s for his weird and gothic fiction short stories that tackled two of Tibet's favorite themes, namely pessimism and nihilism!

A sparsely decorated affair the EP features a return appearance of Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound and harkens back to CURRENT 93's post-industrial sounds of the early 80s which includes synthesized drones and random sounds from found objects. Only the most minimal use of acoustic guitar and piano can be heard and the EP has proven to be one of CURRENT 93's most beloved of his entire length list of shorter EP releases. This was specifically released as a one track CD on the Durtro label but the 12" vinyl version featured a B-side titled "Excerpts From Bungalow Tapes."

One of the closest things to the apocalyptic nightmare music that was displayed on Tibet's earliest albums such as "Nature Unveiled" and "Dogs Blood Rising," I HAVE A SPECIAL PLAN FOR THIS WORLD is indeed a bleak and depressive affair with clearly enunciated spoken word prose that leaves nothing to the imagination in exactly what he is uttering. The bursts of radio static, tape machine blips and bleeps and dark ambient droning really takes this to a whole new level of bleakness especially after releasing such brilliant and more uplifting albums in the 90s that focused on the catchy and melodic acoustic guitar strumming of neofolk.

Of course the most sinister sounds from this EP are from Tibet's poetic delivery itself with a cold and sterile detached procession through the darkest subject matter one could wish to experience in a poetry reading. While i've never really been a huge fan of spoken word vocals in a musical context i have to say that David Tibet delivers it all in such a thoughtful creative way that it's utterly irresistible but only if the darkest of subject matter attracts you for such things. Yet another excursion into some of the most psychotically delicious poetry sessions laid down to a recording, CURRENT 93 is the gift that keeps on giving!

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