Disambiguation

So we are reaching out to clarify something. Perhaps something about what the artist wants to say or even the artist themselves. The first track is the downward spiral, the sinking into the self of the self, defences erected, emotions protected. Good musical expression of experience that we are all prone to at some times, some more than others.

Even in this day and age, shock therapy is still applied, to varying degrees of success, though I have to say I am not a fan of the theory behind it. I suspect it can only cause damage and is not that far from a lobotomy, and those are not fun at all. There is a clinical air about the second track, a formal mediation of a literally shocking process of treatment. Hopefully, when it is applied, it is as a last resort.

The following track suggests that the treatment is superficial, as in it satisfies the intent on the surface of things to suit the practitioner, not the patient. Furthermore, as all the tracks have been so far, this is about an internal experience, and the suggestion seems to be that the treatment was not successful as it sounds like one of my bad days. I call it a crowded head and it can be very disturbing. The music captures the essence of that sensation absolutely perfectly. A soundscape of an innerspace; a soundspace of an innerscape. Either way, the track really plumbs the depths of the soul.

Alone, is like the sound of silence. In a sense a mental configuration that is subjectively perspectival. I can be surrounded by people, who I know or don't know and still feel totally alone. When that is compared to sharing a real space with people you love and who love you, it becomes an intolerable nightmare of the senses and balance of mind. Yet again, the track picks up on that level of inherent frustration, even anger with yourself for feeling alone, when you might have difficulty in consolidating it with the outside world. To quote And Kings Will Come From Your Body (http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/39555), "I am not the shell you see, I am the emptiness beneath".

That anger towards the bad feeling is expressed succinctly and brilliantly well. Sometimes that level of malevolence, that degree of dispossession can lead to a very traumatic, if not deadly situation. Therein lies the danger and ultimate upheaval of the soul, into the mundane, unsuspecting world. Because all that resentment spills over and overwhelms the situation that one can find themselves in. What is seen by others as a 'headfit', can be a very complex and protracted experience for the victim of such a state of mind.

The final track is perhaps a postmodern view of things. That interminable nature versus nurture, or complexity of both. It is a busy track, with some profound things going on musically. Is it in the genes? The concept is essentially arguable, for me personally I think it can be. I am inclined to melancholia and have been as long as I can remember. Happiness was always a fleeting madness to me and not necessarily an enjoyable experience either. My upbringing did not help, as I was pretty much left alone (the word reappears), so maybe there's something to be said for a lack of nurturing to add to the complexities that abound around the head of people who sometimes wish they were dead. Is gene manipulation the progression of shock therapy in our new world? Brilliant album, very evocative and interesting succession of successful tracks.