(Title Credit: Cousteau / Cousteau / 2000)

It’s 11:11 while I’m composing this, by the way. Significance abounds.

Cousteau is like easing into a river of very fine brandy and being swept away to the moon.

I found this description of their music: Sadcore. (This is from the All Music Guide.) That doesn’t quite sum it up but it’s an interesting term. (See definition on next page, if you’re interested.)

np – One Good Reason – Cousteau
from the album “Cousteau”

Sadcore:

Primarily an extension of alternative/independent rock, Sadcore is slow, fragile and gut-wrenching music made by and for the depressed. Themes of heartbreak, loss, and misery dominate the lyrics, and the music itself is resolutely downbeat — the acoustic guitars that once defined '70s-era singer/songwriters certainly resurface here, but much of the music is far more dissonant and intense, conjuring much darker atmospheres and textures. Sadcore bands like American Music Club and Red House Painters channel their pain and suffering into music that is hauntingly beautiful — the perfect soundtrack for solitary late-night listening