punk this week: l.o.t.i.o.n., non plus temps, mirage, ekgs + 14 more
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L.O.T.I.O.N. Multinational Corporation: Machine Hallucinations [Static Shock]
There’s something fitting about L.O.T.I.O.N. being the heralds of the contemporary digital blight we find ourselves wading through. This is industrial cyberpunk informed by techno and produced (by Uniform’s Ben Greenberg) to sound overwhelming and massive. The Corporation have hit a point where they’re knocking on nu-metal’s door, harkening to an era of post-apocalyptic films dressed up in long leather trenchcoats.
Machine Hallucinations is about the decimation of the environment, how the ultra-rich are turning the rest of us into dollars and cents, ICE raids, genocide, and society’s long gradual poisoning (literal and metaphorical). “Absolute Insanity” merely asks that you peep that title’s initials as it offers this very real insight: “Burning the forests for pictures of trees.” Living in the future sucks shit, but this is high camp cyberpunk analysis of the moment sounds fantastic loud.
