This Mortal Coil: An Album of Loss and Subtraction, ‘Offerings’ by Typhoon

But if there’s nothing, if there’s nothing
Then what’s that song that keeps hounding me?
In the still dark of the morning
Just one more cradle down the creek
Au revoir my little memories
Then tell me: this is not your loss, this is your offering

- Wake, 'Offerings'

In this episode we are joined again by Shane Jenkins to discuss the album Offerings by Typhoon. Led by singer-songwriter Kyle Morton, the album is a fascinating, at times difficult, but ultimately transfixing examination of the end of a life. It follows various characters through the experience of dementia, sickness and death, allowing the listener to enter into that space through its rich musicality and lyricism. In our episode we pull out some of the imagery of the album, it's literary and biblical references and allusions and address its powerful and important themes.

Hosts: Rachel Sherlock, Shane Jenkins

Follow us on social media: @seekingwatson @shanekins

Shane's Website: https://sjenkin46.wixsite.com/ipofollies/about

Follow the podcast on Instagram: @riskingenchantmentpodcast

Find out more at www.rachelsherlock.com

Sign up for our email list at www.rachelsherlock.com/podcast

Music: Ashton Manor by Kevin MacLeod

Works Mentioned

Offerings by Typhoon

Hunger and Thirst by Typhoon

White Lighter by Typhoon

"Kyle Morton & Typhoon: In Conversation with Great Minds" — The DePaul Humanities Center

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

'Little Gidding', The Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot

The Choruses from The Rock by T.S. Eliot

'The Hound of Heaven' by Francis Thompson

8 1/2, dir. Frederico Fellini

Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy

 

What We're Enjoying at the Moment

Shane:

Cargo by Pio Harnett

Rachel:

The Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith