Love is a dangerous disease. It is not merely a double-edged sword — it is a sword that is all edge, even the handle. To grip the sword of love is to be gripped by the sword of love — and it will make you bleed. Litres of it spilled in the name of love. And once caught in love’s heartless stranglehold, it rarely — if ever — let’s go. Love becomes obsessed, and it will stay with you forever.
Such is the sad fate of Phantoskii, who, on Phanto’s MUSIC Dump, unloads a sordid story of their danse macabre with love. Obsessed Forever ❤️ details Phantoskii’s burning desire for Hoshi, who remains inoculated against what Phantoskii describes as their “sick romance.”
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To read the rest of this review — and more by Steve Schmolaris — visit his website Bad Gardening Advice.
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Steve Schmolaris is the founder of the Schmolaris Prize, “the most prestigious prize in all of Manitoba,” which he first awarded in 1977. Each year, he awards the prize to the best album of the year. He does not have a profession but, having come from money (his father, “the Millionaire of East Schmelkirk,” left him his fortune when he died in 1977), Steve is a patron of the arts. Inspired by the exquisite detail of a holotype, the collective intelligence of slime mold, the natural world and the suffering inherent within it — and also music (fuck, he loves music!) — Steve has long been writing reviews of Winnipeg artists’ songs and albums at his website Bad Gardening Advice, leading to the publication of a book of the same name.
