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Rating: Soundtrack for a low-grade grand guignol spectacle in a dark, semi-abandoned metropolitan suburb.
Ragged, slightly off-key, and frail music like the singer's voice that sounds, dignifiedly effeminate, as if coming out from behind the scenes of the rocky horror picture etc. The first sounds start, you can hear the crackle of a needle on vinyl and it immediately jams: “ci-ne-ma… ci-ne-ma… ”, then the first (macabre, needless to say) dance begins, which flows away catchy (?) and easy (yes, easy indeed) despite the irritating voice of the young boy from Los Angeles. Then a second track where, at the beginning, the debt towards much new-nu wave is more evident, until an organ starts off, steering the listening towards a more Bauhausian theatricality.
Well, not exactly Bauhausian... the references are rather Rozz(i), Andy Sexgang, and the likes. Indeed, the moment the arrangement becomes slightly more pretentious, you can immediately sense the scent of amused amateurism, and the improbable drum breaks are there to testify it, as lapidary and eloquent as epitaphs. But oh well, those were the premises: pure and healthy ironic-batcave entertainment, much more enjoyable in a small venue used to certain “dark carnivals” than within domestic walls. Otherwise, there's a risk that the dog starts howling, and the refined-eared neighbor begins mentioning all the gods of Olympus in strict alphabetical order.
Absolutely to be listened to only after a rigorous makeup session and patient exercises of empathy. Ci-ne-ma, ci-ne-ma, ci-ne-ma.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Aboriginal Anemia (04:38)
You sit watching your brother die 'cause he chewed on sickly rabbit. Poor boy Parzifal likes to hunt his sister, and so infection sets in like a gang of wolves licking at the heels of the anemic aboriginal hunting grounds, where you sprain your thumb throwing rocks at cadavers. Bashing in my weakened knees, bashing in my weakened knees...
Animal people scale the walls so easily: your bitter family! Holding court without your cousin, rectify your viral sanction. Anxious ears solicit thee, my snarling spies sit down to tea and ignore the bubbling sores that swell and spit along your backbone!
Call your general, fortify his skin so my disease can't penetrate your china shack of ignorance and purple turbans! Split the bread between your chins, annihilate bacteria! Eating, breeding serfs and peasants, bloody plague-boys stealing crumbs! Bashing in my weakened knees, bashing in my weakened knees...
Stripling arrows ricochet off teeth and crystal nighttime goblets. Dinner party, dinner guests, eat their dinners facing west. You fling your curses forth and they are swallowed by the Masque, by the trees, by the hollow oddities! Bashing in my weakened knees, bashing in my weakened knees
05 En Hiver (02:45)
I love to hate you! I am in winter. Frostbite hath claimed me, I succumb to numbness!
Freezing men don't laugh at murder! ...Bleeding naked in the bathtub! Open windows tempt the savory! Women's heads float just as easily!
Within the confines of crystal, reflected is my loathing! Under ice and still, chill waters fish bite stiff men and children!
Freezing men don't laugh at murder! ...Bleeding naked in the bathtub! Open windows tempt the savory! Women's heads float just as easily!
In the fog, in the woods, at midnight, in a land where it's always winter, I cut the thin skin of my ankles and the wind follows me like army. Lashing like a bullwhip in the arctic, I fling icicles like bee-sting! Stuck under glass, in the sphere, in the snowstorm, I shut my eyes and sleep in sleet!
J' Adore pour te détester, Je' Suis En Hiver...
06 Laughing Bloody Murder (05:39)
This is what I reign on your behalf so that you may breathe... The blood that gathers at your feet, the high-pitched screams of agony! I'll drag you down with me, too! I'll make you drown with me! I'll drag you down with me, too! I'll make you drown with me!
This is my indoctrination! Henceforth the tendon's cut! The times when muscle fell from hard bone... The time has come for surgery! I'll drag you down with me, too! I'll make you drown with me! I'll drag you down with me, too! I'll make you drown with me!
This is what the slaughter looks like, you've sent it home with me. You've seen it in my pictures... bent hostility! I'll drag you down with me, too! I'll make you drown with me! I'll drag you down with me, too! I'll make you drown with me!
No, no! No, no! No, no! No, no!
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