Folie à deux : (English pronunciation: /fɒˈli ə ˈduː/) French'
“a madness shared by two / a shared psychosis"
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The long awaited album by the Funeral Suits was released in Ireland last Friday with an in-store in Tower Records, and they will be touring around Ireland over the next few days, doing dates all around the country.
This album is a stunner from beginning to end, and you can listen to the stream of it here on the Funeral Suits Soundcloud.
We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under.
The first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public…The German singer, the American actress… Nothing could replace the look of unknown eyes.
The second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes. They are the tireless hosts of cocktail parties and dinners. They are happier than the people in the first category, who, when they lose their public, have the feeling that the lights have gone out in the room of their lives. This happens to nearly all of them sooner or later. People in the second category, however, can always come up with the eyes that they need.
Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. Their situation is as dangerous as the situation of the people in the first category. One day the eyes of their beloved will close and the room will go dark.
And finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.
- All text from ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ by Milan Kundera
When life is busy unrelentingly kicking your ass, there are some albums that in no small way save your life, ‘Swoon’ by the Silversun Pickups is one of those albums for me. They themselves described it as ‘what a nervous breakdown sounds like’ and like some well timed, perfectly turned out stranger, i found it like some sort of sonic life raft when i was in the quicksand.