SCUM - Literary Fragment (Nefarious Activities, 2020) 3" CD-R

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SCUM - Literary Fragment (Nefarious Activities, 2020) 3" CD-R

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SCUM - Literary Fragment (Nefarious Activities) "3 CD-R review

1 - "Live at Super Deluxe" April 28th 2018

The sound clarity seems to "improve" as the piece progresses, becoming this frightful noturne down an unlit, trash strewn, alleyway of a forlorn industrial city --- this is Industrial Revolution Electronics! The aforementioned clarity the piece gradually arrives at is chilling while the dread mounts continuously --and is seemingly well-justified. The listener is then effectively punished by some heavyweight cutup HN anti-athleticism which takes over and cements firmly into the foundations of the art of it all. A female AI voice reading a disaffected young man's blog enters the fray, or so it seemed, and this artificial tethering to "humanity" and its crummy/scummy workings are gone away forever into the aether, nostalgia for trashy experiences and workings... which, one day, even the "WayBack Machine" will no longer be able to find--the human mind can lower itself a create subjective meaning where no value exists or, to another mind, seems possible. Anyway this glimpse of a robot reading what seems like the words of "flesh and blood" human ephemera soon fades--the account taker likely long since past themselves, likewise the sound fades on your own memory like just another pointless piece of information without reference point.

This cdr stakes its claim at around the 14 minute mark and then it's over. Highest Recommendation!
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