We offer up our time, our minds, we offer up our very souls to be grist in their mill. Merely the inputs and outputs in their soulless algorithm. Our love, our hate, our fear, our arrogance; stolen, repackaged, and sold back to us with knife’s edge precision. When you look around this world and wonder how it got this way, tell me: would it surprise you to hear that they put their thumb on the scale? They want you angry. They need you uninformed. They pray to their omnipresent God, begging for your despair. Anything to keep you scrolling. Whatever it takes to keep you circling the drain. The next thing coming ever faster, raging at you from the soft glow of a tiny screen, pulling you along, forever deeper in, always further down. The code sees your soul, like no human could, a calculating gaze that deconstructs you into small parts so it can put you back together again, so much less human but so much more profitable.
Toronto band Respire deliver a post-hardcore tour de force on the largest scale possible, orchestrally rich and incessantly uncompromising. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 6, 2021
It's a cool journey. Beautiful atmospheric blackened doom ambient combo. Sometimes like Pink Floyd playing funeral doom. Hypnotic album from Hypnotic Dirge records. Wow! Dmitry Nevozhay