{"id":486,"date":"2011-11-29T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2024-02-14T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:57:00","slug":"east-ash-crushing-a-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/east-ash-crushing-a-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"East Ash- Crushing A Flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gloomy days ahead, so here&#8217;s a post that fits the mood I&#8217;m currently rolling with at the moment. East Ash were a post-punk band from Columbia, Missouri, released on C&#8217;est La Morte records (read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/various-artists-doctor-deaths-volume-i-cette-enfant-me-fia-mourir\/\">here<\/a>). This is the first of two albums, released in 1990 on LP and CD. Would be interested in hearing the second album, if anyone happens to have it.<\/p>\n<p>The vocalist here reminds me an awful lot of David Eugene Edwards of 16 Horsepower\/Wovenhand fame. Musically, it&#8217;s a hybrid of early Modern English, Joy Division, &amp; the shimmer of <em>The Joshua Tree<\/em> (mostly heard in &#8220;A Flood&#8221;), with a manic disco edge thrown in for good measure. Dark, gloomy, and driving, just the way I like it. This one definitely should not be missed!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/east-ash-crushing-a-flood\/eastash\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3269\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/eastash-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/eastash-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/eastash-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/eastash.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>East Ash- <em>Crushing a Flood<\/em><br \/>\n1. Dreams<br \/>\n2. Australian Beaches<br \/>\n3. Doesn&#8217;t Know<br \/>\n4. Faceless<br \/>\n5. Wonderful Life<br \/>\n6. A Flood<br \/>\n7. Funerals<br \/>\n8. Milk And Honey<br \/>\n9. The Disease<\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/SOR\/ea-caf.zip\">download it here<\/a>*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloomy days ahead, so here&#8217;s a post that fits the mood I&#8217;m currently rolling with at the moment. East Ash were a post-punk band from Columbia, Missouri, released on C&#8217;est La Morte records (read more here). This is the first of two albums, released in 1990 on LP and CD. Would be interested in hearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,687,692,648,110,19,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-cest-la-morte","category-east-ash","category-goth","category-goth-rock","category-post-punk","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5644,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/5644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}