![]() Barrett and Macuga didn’t expect the album to move like hotcakes, yet the sheer volume of powerful, gut-wrenching industrial and post-punk sounds, not to mention attention to detail in its packaging, revealed a band that really did seem to give a shit, even if they didn’t expect anyone else to. ![]() But after five years and presumably a lot of hard work, the group recorded a dense, sprawling two-disc debut album titled Deathconsciousness, limited to 100 CD-R copies, each of which also each included a 100-page booklet. The project of then-unknown Massachusetts musicians and songwriters Dan Barrett and Tim Macuga, Have a Nice Life took shape when the duo began performing in coffeehouses and open mics, and subsequently released a series of demos that weren’t circulated widely outside their own ZIP code. ![]() The launch of Have a Nice Life’s ascent toward becoming a revered cult band is a case study in contradictions. ![]()
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