Chosen by Monk
These NYC gothic new wave-infused post-punks are taking us to the edge of #Oblivion and back with the second chapter to be lifted from their upcoming collection of short musical stories:
Speaking about the single, singer Gage Allison accentuated the band’s literary influences as told me:
Say a word enough times and it begins to lose meaning. This is a phenomenon called semantic satiation and it is the underlying inspiration behind this song. One day I hope to publish a short story about a drug that, when taken in front of a mirror, triggers a sort of feedback loop which multiplies the users’ sense of self out of existence. Expanding on this, Descartes had an idea that the mind and body were essentially two different things.
And that is how we experience the world – as a subject amongst objects – I don’t believe that this is wrong, I just like toying with the idea of being tricked into experiencing an essential oneness with the universe in a way that binds us in a great link of existence.
Of course, I don’t plan on this story having a sort of happy ending. Framing this concept in this way shouts ‘esoteric hippy’ but that’s not what I’m going for… When it comes down to it too much of anything is almost always a bad thing and taking this drug will likely have dire consequences.
Not to mention, setting this thought experiment up in this way essentially creates a paradox where the destruction of the mind-body dichotomy creates another dichotomy of experience, consequently reproducing the mode of being the user so happened to evade.
Anyway, I’m getting ahead of myself… Let’s just say these lyrics are a prequel to this future project.
- ‘Aurora‘ will be released on 29 August via Sacred Bones Records.