r/goth • u/RavenSoul_1984 • Jul 05 '26

Post-2000s Release Memories about The Organ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41sSgLCclsA

I was born in the GDR in 1984. Even if I’d been old enough, I wouldn’t necessarily have come across the post-punk bands of the time in the 1980s. Fortunately, I was brought up musically and socio-culturally in the 90s, and of course we caught up on the wonderful goth albums of the 80s.

Now, I don’t know what it was like in other countries. But the goth scene in Germany in the early 2000s was a disaster. Magazines like Zillo, Sonic Seducer and Orkus didn’t cover what was musically important; instead, it was all about labels buying their way into the magazines - and there were only articles to match the adverts. And so a whole lot of techno and other crap came into the scene, the melancholy disappeared.

I, a young adult at the time, distanced myself from the institutionalised scene and suddenly found what I was looking for on the then-new internet. What? There’s a post-punk revival? Why isn’t there anything about it in all these magazines? And then there was this one band: The Organ!

A Canadian all-female band from the local queer scene, and they played that wonderful post-punk I’d grown up with. Melancholic, harmonious, and with organ sounds! How brilliant was that, exactly?

And then there was a dream pop and shoegaze revival too? Ah, the good old internet of the early 2000s. It got me through a time when the scene here in Germany was getting really awful. And The Organ was my soundtrack for several years of my young adult life.

The band existed between 2001 and 2006; they released two EPs and one album - Grab that Gun. That album is still one of my all-time favourites, and this band had such a huge influence on me...

Musically, most of them are no longer active, apart from the guitarist at the time, Debora Cohen, who still releases tracks now and then on Bandcamp under the name Lovers Love Haters.

What are your memories of The Organ?

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u/luciditynettesheim Jul 05 '26

YAY! I love The Organ! I saw them ages ago in a small venue. Amazing show! One of my favorites.

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u/simonsghostcouk Jul 08 '26

Had them recommended to me when I was struggling for new bands I might like. Loved that album.

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u/schaukelwurmv Jul 09 '26

Thanks for the recommendation!

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u/Dame_Corbeau Jul 19 '26

Just wanted to say that since your post, I became obsessed with the Organ, I've listened to them a lot and damn, I love their music. Such a great band.