Imagined spaces, utopian apocalypses. The Club goes to fake tropics to witness the true horrors of the world, the ones lurking beneath the facade of sanity and reason the cargo cults desperately cultivate. Alternative pasts and futures are created to see what things could be like, total negation so we can see anything else, a dubbed-out hauntological version of life. The past is relentlessly devouring everything, even the future, so let's just blow it all wide open. This is not the sound of the end (though we've been stuck at the full stop for quite some time), this is the sound of the everyday, a declaration of true emotion, if not the true world. Imperialism is, after all, the highest form of capitalism, and the great empires haven't gone anywhere, instead they've taken over all of reality itself. Let's make a new state of existence and use it to smash everything they have.
The Legitimate Businessman's Social Club returns with an album far, far better than its predecessor. Whilst Do Him Two Favours was predominantly the product of digital manipulation, True Love... was recorded entirely live in single takes, with only a tiny bit of 'production' afterwards in the form of more delays/reverb and the 'field recordings'. Summoned in the dark with gear I don't understand and don't want to, terrifying beauty. Turn all the lights off, lie on the floor, and see what thoughts emerge, see what could be. More soon, under many names.
Sorry there aren't any Simpsons references this time.
Trevor Powers, formerly known as Youth Lagoon, offers "music for our digital coma" across a melancholic surprise LP. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 29, 2020