Super glad to see you jump into this one. It’s pretty much my all time favorite album. Some context for this one, as promised last time. Dan Barrett, the lead man behind Deathconsciousness and the rest of Have a Nice Life’s projects, wrote this one in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s. Originally it was supposed to just be a country project but it turned into what you hear it is now. Much like Deathconsciousness, Dan wrote this one while depressed. To my knowledge this one came shortly after his dad passed and after a relationship of his ended. The impetus of the album started after he attempted suicide by stabbing himself in the heart, only stopped by the realization he couldn’t do it and threw the knife into his wall in a burst of emotion. This album also came with a booklet! It’s much more autobiographical but it does still contain elements of fiction, including an explanation of the album cover. The cover is a picture of Dan wearing what he calls a Voor’s Head Device, which is essentially just a big bag that you put over your head. The breakdown at the end of the Haunting Presence is actually completely real. According to Dan, be put the device on his head and started recording and blacked out. When he woke up, he played the recording back and found what you heard on that opening track. The album is also named after a real person; Giles Corey of the Salem witch trials. Corey’s wife was accused of being a witch, which he believed initially before defending her. He was later tried for being a witch himself, and when asked what he plead he remained silent. The town, as punishment, decided to put him under a slab and put rocks on top of the slab. They would continuously add stones until eventually they asked him one last time what he plead, to which he simply responded “more weight.” After that, they placed the last rock on him and crushed him to death. Dan saying “there’s a devil on my back, there’s a devil on my legs” etc is him analogizing this to his depression, saying that it’s crushing him and killing him completely. Not quite as much to unpack contextually like with Deathconsciousness, but it’s a much more intensely personal album I feel. Dan really shed the mysticism and imagery on this one and honestly to its benefit. That said, Giles Corey has a second project! An EP called Hinterkaifeck. It's only 3 songs but all three are on par with everything on this album. Have a Nice Life also has 2 more albums (and it seems Dan and Tim are working on another one according to their Patreon) and Dan himself has a few extra side projects like Black Wing and Nahvalr and lots of lost media albums/EPs like Gate and In Pieces. Lots and lots of good stuff. Recommend checking out HANL's Unnatural World in particular, as well as the Giles Corey EP. Also, you should check out the live version of No One is Ever Going to Want Me. It's fucking nuts. As for recommendations, going to go with some less personal ones and suggest you hit up some more of the internet darling classics! The Glow Pt. 2 - The Microphones (I see someone mentioned A Crow Looked at Me, wouldn't recommend listening to that one before this, same artist!) Loveless - My Bloody Valentine In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel Souvlaki - Slowdive The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me - Brand New Hospice - The Antlers Songs About Leaving - Carissa's Wierd Turn On the Bright Lights - Interpol Twin Fantasy (2018) - Car Seat Headrest Grace - Jeff Buckley The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie Long Season - Fishmans every Elliott Smith album pretty much all of Radiohead’s discography, recommend starting with The Bends
@@k8thegr8.of course! Glad you enjoyed these albums so much. Hope you check out some of those recommendations, would love to hear your thoughts on all of them.
You forgot the “other” album… deconstructionist. Which Dan barrett looked into what happened on “the haunting presence” and decided to try and create some of his own “trance” music. it’s definitely an experience is all I’m gonna say.
This is such a dark, bleak album, with an unnervingly comforting element sprinkled into it symbolizing that yearn for release, for an imagined end. I hope Dan's doing alright these days, and I hope that if or when he plays these songs live, they feel like covers, because I don't want him dipping into this headspace again, for his own sake.
reccomendations for simillar albums to Giles Corey and Deathconsciousness: The Unnatural World Sea of Worry Voids No Moon Songs About Leaving Hinterkaifeck (Giles Corey EP) Time of Land (HANL EP) In Rainbows Souvlaki Just for a Day The Glow, Pt.2 Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven Below the House You Won't Get What You Want Stratosphere
Theres a devil on my back , theres a devil on my chest, I wanna feel like i feel when im asleep!.. Good to see this amazing album being found by new people
Hey, I’d suggest you to check out the album “Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern” by Lil Ugly Mane, it’s a really beautiful and musically creative trip hop album that bears some sad and nostalgic tones.
every time i listen to this it makes me grateful dan barrett is doing much better because it really does sound like it comes from someone at the absolute lowest pit of life. especially on songs like blackest bile and i'm going to do it, which are probably my two favorite on the album. your reaction to i'm going to do it really showed how fucking ruinous that one is glad you enjoyed the album like you did with deathcon! it's not at all similar sonically or sound wise, but if you want more music that really gets at that intense pit of despair then i'd heavily recommend nine inch nails' music. broken, the downward spiral, and the fragile are all three of my favorite music projects ever
I will never forget how bad of a place I was in when this came out. It was the soundtrack to many horrible nights. I'm thankful for Dan for helping me get through that period of my life.
In some instances I prefer this album over deathconciousness, both extremely hard listens though lol. I heavily recommend “grouper / Inca ore” by grouper and Inca ore, just like Giles Corey and deathconsciousness it’s a hard a listen but it’s one of those albums that give you a VERY unique experience that I’ve yet to have with any other album
I see the sentiment in the comments being echoed but you should totally give The Unnatural World by Have A Nice Life a listen, I know you already have The Glow Pt. 2 on your list so I'll spare that suggestion. If you like The Glow Pt. 2, Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me is super soul crushing.
This is indeed a dark album, but it still has plenty of light. My sad recommendation is Mount Eerie - 'a crow looked at me'. Some people can't make it pass the 2nd track it's that upsetting. 😢
you should also listen to Afterlives - A Ticking Clock I Couldn't Stop. It is a hidden masterpiece made by Will Barrett (Dan Barretts brother) and was released only a year after Deathconsciousness was made.
Super glad to see you jump into this one. It’s pretty much my all time favorite album.
Some context for this one, as promised last time.
Dan Barrett, the lead man behind Deathconsciousness and the rest of Have a Nice Life’s projects, wrote this one in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s. Originally it was supposed to just be a country project but it turned into what you hear it is now. Much like Deathconsciousness, Dan wrote this one while depressed. To my knowledge this one came shortly after his dad passed and after a relationship of his ended. The impetus of the album started after he attempted suicide by stabbing himself in the heart, only stopped by the realization he couldn’t do it and threw the knife into his wall in a burst of emotion.
This album also came with a booklet! It’s much more autobiographical but it does still contain elements of fiction, including an explanation of the album cover. The cover is a picture of Dan wearing what he calls a Voor’s Head Device, which is essentially just a big bag that you put over your head. The breakdown at the end of the Haunting Presence is actually completely real. According to Dan, be put the device on his head and started recording and blacked out. When he woke up, he played the recording back and found what you heard on that opening track.
The album is also named after a real person; Giles Corey of the Salem witch trials. Corey’s wife was accused of being a witch, which he believed initially before defending her. He was later tried for being a witch himself, and when asked what he plead he remained silent. The town, as punishment, decided to put him under a slab and put rocks on top of the slab. They would continuously add stones until eventually they asked him one last time what he plead, to which he simply responded “more weight.” After that, they placed the last rock on him and crushed him to death. Dan saying “there’s a devil on my back, there’s a devil on my legs” etc is him analogizing this to his depression, saying that it’s crushing him and killing him completely.
Not quite as much to unpack contextually like with Deathconsciousness, but it’s a much more intensely personal album I feel. Dan really shed the mysticism and imagery on this one and honestly to its benefit. That said, Giles Corey has a second project! An EP called Hinterkaifeck. It's only 3 songs but all three are on par with everything on this album. Have a Nice Life also has 2 more albums (and it seems Dan and Tim are working on another one according to their Patreon) and Dan himself has a few extra side projects like Black Wing and Nahvalr and lots of lost media albums/EPs like Gate and In Pieces. Lots and lots of good stuff. Recommend checking out HANL's Unnatural World in particular, as well as the Giles Corey EP.
Also, you should check out the live version of No One is Ever Going to Want Me. It's fucking nuts.
As for recommendations, going to go with some less personal ones and suggest you hit up some more of the internet darling classics!
The Glow Pt. 2 - The Microphones (I see someone mentioned A Crow Looked at Me, wouldn't recommend listening to that one before this, same artist!)
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Souvlaki - Slowdive
The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me - Brand New
Hospice - The Antlers
Songs About Leaving - Carissa's Wierd
Turn On the Bright Lights - Interpol
Twin Fantasy (2018) - Car Seat Headrest
Grace - Jeff Buckley
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie
Long Season - Fishmans
every Elliott Smith album
pretty much all of Radiohead’s discography, recommend starting with The Bends
thank you SO MUCH FOR THIS you’re amazing!!!!! this is INSANE. thank you my world is now turned upside down…
@@k8thegr8.of course! Glad you enjoyed these albums so much. Hope you check out some of those recommendations, would love to hear your thoughts on all of them.
You forgot the “other” album… deconstructionist. Which Dan barrett looked into what happened on “the haunting presence” and decided to try and create some of his own “trance” music. it’s definitely an experience is all I’m gonna say.
I second songs about leaving one of the best albums ever
The crazy part is, Dan looks like an accountant and plays the saddest most depressing music to ever come out
You’re pretty close. Dan is a real estate agent
This is such a dark, bleak album, with an unnervingly comforting element sprinkled into it symbolizing that yearn for release, for an imagined end. I hope Dan's doing alright these days, and I hope that if or when he plays these songs live, they feel like covers, because I don't want him dipping into this headspace again, for his own sake.
Loved the video!! A really sad album i'd reccomend is called "songs about leaving" - Carissas wierd. The backstory is really really sad.
will definitely check it out! thank you so much!!!
@@k8thegr8. another great album with zero youtube reactions 🙏 please save us k8thegr8
UNNATURAL WORLD (have a nice life again) NEXT!!!!
hell yea, it'll actually be very first Unnatural World reaction on youtube i believe
@@dronovbiotex IT WOULD
fuck yeah bro
Eh... I mean it's alright like?
@@Uteria_888 Peak to me, Defenestration Song and Dan and Tim, Reunited by Fate are my favorite songs from them
reccomendations for simillar albums to Giles Corey and Deathconsciousness:
The Unnatural World
Sea of Worry
Voids
No Moon
Songs About Leaving
Hinterkaifeck (Giles Corey EP)
Time of Land (HANL EP)
In Rainbows
Souvlaki
Just for a Day
The Glow, Pt.2
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Below the House
You Won't Get What You Want
Stratosphere
Great reaction, giles corey is an unique album indeed, very sincere and honest. At least that's what I felt when I first listened it.
yes so sincere and honest, I love it so much!
Theres a devil on my back , theres a devil on my chest,
I wanna feel like i feel when im asleep!..
Good to see this amazing album being found by new people
This is such a fantastic album, one of the best
Hey, I’d suggest you to check out the album “Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern” by Lil Ugly Mane, it’s a really beautiful and musically creative trip hop album that bears some sad and nostalgic tones.
every time i listen to this it makes me grateful dan barrett is doing much better because it really does sound like it comes from someone at the absolute lowest pit of life. especially on songs like blackest bile and i'm going to do it, which are probably my two favorite on the album. your reaction to i'm going to do it really showed how fucking ruinous that one is
glad you enjoyed the album like you did with deathcon! it's not at all similar sonically or sound wise, but if you want more music that really gets at that intense pit of despair then i'd heavily recommend nine inch nails' music. broken, the downward spiral, and the fragile are all three of my favorite music projects ever
Fun fact: both this album and deathcon BOTH have accompanying horror novellas that are some of the most horrific shit you could ever read.
Loved your reaction ♥
I'd recommend Black Wing - No Moon, another Dan project
I will never forget how bad of a place I was in when this came out. It was the soundtrack to many horrible nights. I'm thankful for Dan for helping me get through that period of my life.
In some instances I prefer this album over deathconciousness, both extremely hard listens though lol. I heavily recommend “grouper / Inca ore” by grouper and Inca ore, just like Giles Corey and deathconsciousness it’s a hard a listen but it’s one of those albums that give you a VERY unique experience that I’ve yet to have with any other album
100% both super hard listens! I will add Grouper and Inca Ore to my list, I am scared LOL! thank you!!!
Aint nobody gonna help u bruh 😭😭 (No one is ever going to want me)
I see the sentiment in the comments being echoed but you should totally give The Unnatural World by Have A Nice Life a listen, I know you already have The Glow Pt. 2 on your list so I'll spare that suggestion. If you like The Glow Pt. 2, Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me is super soul crushing.
Giles corey deconstructionist next
K8 k8 k8 i know what you may like to check out. Lazarus Plot - Lazarus Plot (self-titled). Touchy female vocalist emo hardcore/author's songs
Yes this album is messing around, Dan barret has said before that he doesn't know how to play any instruments
grave filled with Brooks? Who's brook? 🫠
This is indeed a dark album, but it still has plenty of light. My sad recommendation is Mount Eerie - 'a crow looked at me'. Some people can't make it pass the 2nd track it's that upsetting. 😢
I will reluctantly add that album to my list then haha! thank you!!!
you should also listen to Afterlives - A Ticking Clock I Couldn't Stop. It is a hidden masterpiece made by Will Barrett (Dan Barretts brother) and was released only a year after Deathconsciousness was made.
I fucking love you bro
However will barrett isnt a part of hanl lol
He's Dan's brother
I love it whenever i find someone that knows abt this album
i had my knowledge a little mixed up im sorry :')
♥