The rites of security theater play themselves out in airports, hotels, malls, town centers and gated communities. These rituals protect us mentally from the creeping suspicions that we are not actually safe at any time or place. This illusion of security is constructed within our private lives as well, in our homes and residences; with our significant others, our friends, our families. We are compelled to surveil upon each other in order to feel some level of comfort. The loss of our own privacy to others is outweighed by our need to observe, to know the limits and the parameters of our relationships. We give up our autonomy and our sense of uncertainty for a false feeling of invulnerability. This loss is palpable, and reflects into every aspect of modern existence with it's dazzling luster. The lights fade, the curtains rise, and the audience falls silent with anticipation of the performance to come.
Xeno & Oaklander return with an album full of their trademark minimalist synth grooves and slow-winding vocal melodies. Dark and mysterious. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 11, 2016
Dissemblance, a one-woman EBM machine from Paris, spikes danceable minimal-synth grooves with gothic gloom and springy bass. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 4, 2019