Gloom after History

by dethrone

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nader If hauntology is about the unfulfilled promises of the past coming back to haunt us in the present, then dethrone’s synth-filled dystopian landscapes are the clearest expression to date of a left hauntology, more concerned with the failure of the left & of real social alternatives than with the unfulfilled promises of modernism per se. Fueled by noisy industrial echoes, the synths are nevertheless refreshingly harmonic, reminiscent of the post-noise work of OPN or Burial. An instant classic. Favorite track: Omnia Sunt Communia.

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1.	Exarcheia 03:01	buy track
2.	Omnia Sunt Communia 06:56	buy track
3.	For Meager Social Capital 04:31	buy track
4.	Cairo Dirge 04:46	buy track
5.	The Ruins of All Prisons 06:18	buy track
6.	A Good Bullet from a Good Gun 04:35	buy track
7.	Anomie is the Correct Response 02:10	buy track

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"To be sure, we need history. But we need it in a manner different from the way in which the spoilt idler in the garden of knowledge uses it, no matter how elegantly he may look down on our coarse and graceless needs and distresses. That is, we need it for life and action, not for a comfortable turning away from life and action or merely for glossing over the egotistical life and the cowardly bad act. We wish to use history only insofar as it serves living. But there is a degree of doing history and a valuing of it through which life atrophies and degenerates. To bring this phenomenon to light as a remarkable symptom of our time is every bit as necessary as it may be painful."

Nietzsche, "On the Use and Abuse of History for Life," 1874

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released August 12, 2019

Music by Isaac Hand. Recorded in Athens, GR. 2019.
Mastering by Ian Gullet.
Artwork by Arthur Menezes Brum.

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dethrone Brooklyn, New York

also check out Latter, a project by Isaac Hand, Arthur Brum and Nader Atassi latter1.bandcamp.com/releases

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