driving, infectious, subversive, vigorous

METRIC ~ Gold Guns Girls [2⊘1⊘]

Money, power, and sex. The near-perfect 21st-century trifecta and three words that explain so much of our world. They are the figurative carrots society uses to encourage compliance and creativity to its benefit. Not a perfect system, but one that has managed to usher in an untold technological revolution in a critically short period of time. And not without cost, as greed is a powerful motivator if an insatiable master — ask any … Continue reading METRIC ~ Gold Guns Girls [2⊘1⊘]

disturbedByVoicesSeptember 13, 2023September 29, 20237 Comments

Close-up of Marilyn Manson's face with a tech eyepatch darkly muted

driving, industrial, influential, subversive

Marilyn Manson ~ The Beautiful People [1999]

“I write phrases constantly and I have about 15 different notebooks going at the same time. I’ll write lots of different things in each book. I have to lay them all out in the same place and pull things from each of them to write a song. I was on tour and I remember recording it on my four-track with Twiggy [Ramirez, bass] and my drummer Ginger [Fish] in a hotel … Continue reading Marilyn Manson ~ The Beautiful People [1999]

disturbedByVoicesAugust 22, 2023August 23, 20237 Comments

dancey, infectious, influential, subversive

The Presets ~ My People [2⊘⊘7]

“Tall and tan and young and lovely,” the first verse perhaps beginning a brief homage to the Brazillian bossa nova jazz song, “The Girl from Ipanema,” itself a worldwide hit of the 1960s referencing the fashionable neighborhood of southern Rio de Janeiro and (then) seventeen-year-old, Helô Pinheiro. She was, “the paradigm of the young Carioca: a golden teenage … Continue reading The Presets ~ My People [2⊘⊘7]

disturbedByVoicesDecember 5, 2022May 28, 2023Leave a comment

infectious, melancholic, subversive, synthy

VNV Nation ~ When Is The Future? [2⊘18]

Beat-synced footsteps carry us forward into the future, though, unironically, backward would suffice. Intertwining synths sing shimmering praises to majestic Chronos with layers floating above and below the present, as if ghost-like apparitions of unknown pasts and futures. A distant clock strikes thirteen and Father Time chuckles inwardly. “Faces without names, Playing devils and angels, Lit up by the strobes, Moving hypnotized.” … Continue reading VNV Nation ~ When Is The Future? [2⊘18]

disturbedByVoicesDecember 1, 2022May 28, 2023Leave a comment

cerebral, eerie, infectious, subversive

TVAM ~ Double Lucifer [2⊘22]

TVAM self-released his much-acclaimed debut Psychic Data in the autumn of 2018, something of a cult classic, the album joined the dots between Suicide’s deconstructed rock ’n’ roll, Boards of Canada’s irresistible nostalgia, and My Bloody Valentine’s infinite noise. “I only want to adore you, I only want to give you everything, I only want you to hear this, I only want you as an offering.” “The cultural constructs of good and evil … Continue reading TVAM ~ Double Lucifer [2⊘22]