I'm still on the fence about some of this stuff, the awkward exoticist undertones in particular don't come across well, but it has something. I love this one...
Weird, I was thinking about VS for the first time in months last night because that article about small-town white kids running off to Syria to join jihadi brigades reminded me of this tune:
which I really dig. 'Cairo...' is a great pick too - I think they're adjacent tracks on the same EP.
I like a lot of the music but agree that it's all a bit teenage-edgelord. AFAIK he has no personal emotional investment in supporting Hamas or whatever like MG did.
I like the RSE-stuff he puts out. I never cared too much about what you call the exoticist undertones. But I always imagined it to be more of post-colonial critique/irony, rather than an earnest belief in tribal magic. A bit like his military-toned titles are not a simple exaltation of all things war. (It might have to do with the fact that I started listening to this stuff in the period I saw the Embrace of the serpent and both somehow clicked together in my head.)
If I recall correctly, two western botanists try to find a plant, guided by a local shaman Presumably a metaphor for the (mis)adventures of the white male/scientific/colonial gaze in Amazonia.
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