the Culture/Culture II era, they have nothing to prove, they've won, they are basking - melting into liquid glowing pools of jouissance
there is an ecstatic, oozy quality - ethereal and (at odds with the lyrics) eerily unmanly at times, lacking in thrust and drive
Isn't this a decades old critical intellectual bias though? music critics could never get with black sabbath. they could never get with grindcore, 90s memfis rap, horrorcore, dancehall, the more harsher end of dnb that crosses into gabba territory, speedcore etc. there seems to be a pivot to the oceanic to avoid getting too invested in male fantasies, as that german sociologist (I forget the name) coined it to refer to the hyper-masculinity of extreme right groups. It seems to be the curse of, i guess, coming from an outsider background.
But something white bohemians struggle to understand is we can't just escape hyper-masculinity at will. It's fucking dismal but it's fact.
That's why I'm kind of indifferent to tranquility unless it's done in a totally disembodied way like some berlin school and tangerine dream. I'm never ever tranquil. my mind is buzzing at 135 MPH all the time, even when someone's sucking me knob. So like I disagree with Corpsey's ADHD criticism. More of that is fantastic, but it's less now. more, more more flicking through TV channels! That's real.
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