What to listen to if you are infected with popular disease 'COVID-19'

 Like most people on this planet, I recently became infected with smash hit disease 'COVID-19.' In between slurping on tasteless cups of soup and shivering, I found that I had a lot of time in prison isolation to listen to some fun and exciting new things. So naturally, I played the same three Steve Hauschildt albums on repeat.

However! That doesn't make for a good blog post! And this ol' thing has not been updated since... 2018?! Time to get to work.

Cosmic Foxhole presents... 

~What to listen to if you are infected with popular disease 'COVID-19'~

1. In Amber by Hercules and Love Affair

You might remember Hercules and Love Affair from their catchy collaboration with Anohni back in the day, singing exuberant disco songs about... turning blind? Well, forget that. Anohni is still there, but they're full of goth rage now. There are lots of songs about being disappointed with religious institutions, and why not have some melancholic f-slur, as a treat. Makes sense that this album is the perfect soundtrack for that little window of time where you gasp for air between coughing. YOLO never sounded scarier!

2. Aerial by Kate Bush

So apparently Ms. KB is 'having a moment' thanks to her (admittedly excellent) song 'Running Up That Hill' being featured in Stranger Things. But, target audience, you have COVID-19! And after struggling through one SEVENTY MINUTE EPISODE, you decided that maybe you should stick to the sustainable eleven minutes of wholesome queer cartoon Steven Universe. Then you can retire to bed for your sixtieth nap of the day, awash with the pastel watercolour sounds of Kate Bush's 2005 gem 'Aerial-' a true daydream of an album. 

Favourite moments here are 'Pi,' where she sings the digits of pi, and 'Mrs. Bartolozzi,' where she sings about doing laundry. ... I promise this is a real and good album and not a joke.

3. Misc. songs by Sam Amidon

It's day 5 of your infection and you thought you were feeling better on day 4 but now you feel worse. You struggle to remember what day of the week it is. You struggle to remember the names of your primary schoolmates' dads, and then you wonder why you're even thinking about that. You have a fever dream where Hayden Christensen tells you that he invented popcorn at his same-sex marriage. You start to wonder whether it's going to be this wild next time you catch covid, and then spiral into despair when you realise there will definitely be a next time and this disease is never going away and the world is ruined forever. Anyway, Sam Amidon's gentle Kermit voice is a great end of days soundtrack!

The end. Hopefully it won't take a plague to get me to write here again? p.s. those three Steve Hauschildt albums are REALLY GOOD: Check out Strands, Nonlin and Where All Is Fled ✌

Yours infected,