Still think Reflektor is comfortably their best record, ahead of Neon Bible.
Thanks for the insights into how things are in America at the moment everyone. Peef in particular, and LM, for being so open. It seems apocalyptic from the outside looking in. Unfixable. I am hoping for the best for all of you. Please look after yourselves and feel free to drop in here with updates.
In Australia, we've done a pretty good job of flattening the curve. Every other state and territory bar my own (Victoria) is now about 60% back open. We were getting to the same point here, but we've had a huge spike in cases (which I'm sure has a lot to do with drastically increased testing) and now metro Melbourne is back on the hardest lockdowns for six weeks, which has me very upset, angry, depressed, flat and frustrated. I'm really worried for people's mental health. It's not as easy as "looking at the positives". There's no roadmap for this. The uncertainty makes it worse.
I feel that we're all going through a collective trauma, and I think the grief comparisons are completely fair. We ARE losing a year or possibly longer of our lives. That is unfair. I am grieving losing what's likely to be at least six months of normal living.
It also makes me think about people living through worse things, like being a young person in Syria, or being a soldier sent to die in a war, or the people who sat in their homes for five/six years in WWI and WWII. I wonder how they felt, how their mental health was affected. I wish I could ask my grandparents.
Wherever anyone is at, is completely fine and understandable. I would encourage everyone to be kind to themselves and do what they need to do to survive, and not worry about thriving.