#28: AUDIOBOOKS
“LaLaLa It’s The Good Life”
from the album Astro Tough
Released: October 2021
It’s a generation after Inner City and the baubles were about all that got spared. The neutron bomb virus had preserved all the trees and buildings but erased or hid the human beings. As we gingerly emerged from the iron pyrite-dotted wreckage, we gradually understood that we had to learn to act like human beings again. It is a difficult thing to have to relearn when the world would rather have scratched you out of its right pupil.
So yes, this is a jaunty, jittery art riot of concealed despair, despair about what happened to my iPhone (but don’t MOAN!) or that Uber XL or the margarita, knowing that it might still just be illegal, thus its quasi-epileptic chorus, designed to disguise the performers’ existence, and understanding the deep void which masks this attempt at ecstasy. It is barely two-and-a-quarter minutes long – a woman drawls, some guy hiccups the soundtrack – but it was a post-epidemic experiment under masked glass; does this way of existing still work, and why doesn’t it?
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