Hellmouth

"She is ten times heavier Stronger, than you found the grave Or ever was… I think you need Ice water But the only thing that You really hate Is all its emptiness” --”Ice Water”, Cat Power Intro/Thesis (CryoChronos)     Nico’s “The Marble Index” is both a work of folk music genius and classical, sculptural beauty--existing in a space that is wholly its own. It is a work of conjuration, both archaic and futuristic.  This album is an example of what Bob Dylan called “Arsenic Music” or “Phaedra Music,” filtered through a Germanic classical ideal. This album is an ice sculpture, if the ice were frozen time.   Nico is a seer.  To understand Nico through standard rational-materialist lenses will do very little good, therefore I propose a new field that will help to understand her creation:  cryochronology , or the study of frozen time.  It will be an archaeology performed on the glacier that is “The Marble Index”.  It is a particularly slippery and difficul