Deathconsciousness
Deathconsciousness is the debut studio album by American rock duo Have a Nice Life, released on January 24, 2008 on Enemies List Home Recordings. "Deathconsciousness" is a double album; the first disc is entitled "The Plow That Broke the Plains", the second is entitled "The Future". The original cover art features a darkened version of the painting "The Death of Marat". The album was reissued in 2009 by Enemies List, re-pressing the album on vinyl and CD, with new cover art. The reissue included a 70-page booklet with various paintings and lyrics. Another reissue of "Deathconsciousness" was  released September 17, 2014 by Enemies List and The Flenser. Composition and music. Bandmember Dan Barrett was quoted as saying, "The lyrics were written simultaneously with the songs, though I tend to work in scraps... I'm constantly writing, then culling pieces that I think fit the music to build entire songs around. At the time I had a job where I would have to be into work at 4:30 in the morning, alone in a giant building, at a desk in front of a giant window. I wrote reams and reams during that time." Regarding how the project came  to fruition, Barrett remarked that "We didn’t have a grand plan for it. A couple things ended up happening. We were recording songs and we had a bunch of stuff we didn’t know what to do with. We had a lot of material always because we would just get together and always write new stuff, and never work on the old stuff. I think it started coming together as a project, like my dad passed away and I think that sort of threw things sharply into focus." In an online Q&A session, Barrett commented on the notoriously lo -fi sound achieved on the album, mentioning how "a lot of Deathconsciousness was recorded through the pinhole mic on [his] laptop". The whole album was recorded with a budget of less than 1,000 USD. The album's style has been described as dark ambient and gothic-rock; its tone "apocalyptic". Deathconsciousness is a concept album; Jayson Heller of "Pitchfork" identified the thesis of the album as the view that "Existence is bleak, gallows humor undergirds it, and sometimes wallowing in that sick paradox is the best revenge". Release. Alongside the album, a 70-page booklet was released. Reception and legacy . Despite expecting it to linger in obscurity, the album has, in the years following its release, gained a substantial cult following, especially in online music communities such as 4chan's /mu/, the website's imageboard for musical discussion, where it is considered an "essential" album. The album is also acclaimed on the Reddit community r/Indieheads. Mike LeSuer of Flood magazine described the album as a "meme-worthy cultural moment". As of 2019, the album had been re-issued seven times. Also in 2019, the band performed the album in its entirety at the Dutch metal festival Roadburn. The opening  track "A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut" was sampled by producer John Mello for a song by rapper Lil Peep on a track titled "Shiver". Bandmember Tim Macuga remarked, “I recorded that guitar part in my bathtub and now it’s on the front page of "Us Weekly" for a rapper’s eulogy.”