What more is there to say about the astonishing ‘Destruction’?
Oh no! I Googled ‘Destruction’ and it just came up with loads of stats from the Gaza genocide! That’s embarrassing! Innocent mistake though, hope you understand. I promise that I won’t mention the continued and UK sponsored slaughter happening right now in Gaza anymore on this list, I promise. And that photo will already be dated tomorrow, when the death count will likely have risen by a few hundred. What was I thinking posting it there completely accidentally??
So, as I asked, what is there left to say about Efficax’s incredible second (proper) album? I interviewed the prolific and prodigiously talented Elle Gilliam back in October, and her track by track analysis will probably do more to explain why ‘Destruction’ rocks hard better than I could. I’ve already described the record as a “huge leap forward artistically from anything Efficax has done before”, and this subtle, quietly compassionate record has only grown in my affections in the two months since. The album was always going to be on this list, but affording each track the close examination that the interview required really forced me to really appreciate the enduring quality of the album. There’s a lesson here: just let me interview you, artists, I’ll likely pay your work far more attention place it quite high on the year end list. Unless the album’s shit, of course, so make sure you don’t do that, that would be a disaster!
Oh no! I just Googled ‘disaster’, and all I got was images of the continued ethnic cleansing of the people of Gaza by the western backed apartheid regime of Israel! What a stupid goof! Honestly, you’d think I’d have learned after I’ve already made the same mistake once before, but I just don’t know where my head is at today??
So what’s left to say about Efficax/Elle Gilliam’s career highlight? I mean, probably quite a lot, when you think about it. I, personally, could speak of the impeccable fusion of Gibson’s original, Helltown era alternative rock stylings with the far more challenging and expansive electronica that they’ve experimented with for their Efficax project. And, previously, a lot of Efficax’s work seemed to sound like an experiment first, and the actual song occasionally took second place to the sonic ambition. ‘Destruction’ is an ambitious and expansive record with fourteen incredible actual songs. And you know what else there is to say? Fucking anything from you! The chances are that you have neither listened to nor even heard of this album, you fucking philistine. Get onto Bandcamp, it probably costs around 10p, educate yourself, cretin. And on the 20th January, we’re getting the even more ambitious 20 track ‘Junebug’ record. Get in early on that, because if she continues on her current trajectory Efficax is going to blow up pretty soon and absolutely kill it.
Oh no!!!
(Helltown)
One year Elle isn’t going to release a record and this blog will have to shut down. We’re good for 2025 at least.
Album Title as AI Art
Necessary Evil 
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