I know this album was released not too long ago, almost two years to be exact. I feel though, that this release did not get the recognition that it deserves. Being one of the better electronic albums that I have heard in awhile, Telefon Tel Aviv’s third proper full-length album, Immolate Yourself, has quickly become a record that I’ve obsessed over. The week following the release of this album, Charles Cooper, one half of the band’s duo, was found dead, and even before I knew that, the album held a strange sense of helplessness around it. It seemed to encompass a sense of comfortable dread; it produced, in me, strange feelings that were hard to categorize at first. And now, with the death of one of the founding members and main contributors to the sound, those feelings are skewed once again into uncertainty.
