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Singularitarian Rhapsody

by Spirits in the Pillar

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Spirits in the Pillar have loosely defined themselves as 'post-punkish' - a term which captures only one side of the British quintet's complex and highly singular sound. By way of introduction to the band's upcoming AnalogueTrash debut EP Scaled-down Expectations, they have revealed Singularitarian Rhapsody as its first featured single.

For Spirits in the Pillar, Singularitarian Rhapsody exists in a space of its own, meandering within an eclectic musical and conceptual landscape. The song's post-punk foundations are given new life and new meanings by the band's reinterpretation of the genre, as they incorporate elements of hardcore, post-rock and spoken-word poetry into this expansive and immersive label debut.

Reveals vocalist Iain about the song, 'It began with the thought of a snail antenna - in a Keatsian register, the trembling and delicate emblem of intelligence - being replaced by a numb scar through repeated defensive withdrawals from the advance of 'dark enlightenment' sophistry.

'Picture the great Romantic poet awaking to the image of a dummy in a midnight cherry Roadster hurtling towards deep space, Gil Scott-Heron's Whitey on the Moon soundtracking off-shore nation formation in accelerated stop-motion, an extreme close-up of Ray Kurzweil in cryosuspension with the Fugazi lyric 'I am a patient boy / I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait' tattooed on his brow.'

The track offers both a critique of and a response to the advance of unthinking, unknowing technologies in defining 21st-century society and culture.

Iain continues: 'While the song is as inconsequential as a 'touch grass' meme, it at least encourages a stirring play of muscles on the threshold of techno-capital's meat-grinder, some gritted-teeth laughter in the face(lessness) of that retrochronically-calculating AI-demon spawned by diseased Silicon Valley brains.

'If it's a call for anything, it's for those scraping a living beneath the strata of the Zoom classes to spit on the hymn sheet of a technotheocracy peddling a vision of fully automated luxury Gnosticism that always already ignores the bodies it is dependent on.'

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released August 12, 2022

Spirits in the Pillar are: Ol Andrews, Tom Dane, Iain Rowley, Ed Lyon, and Alistair Lax
Cover image by: Tom Dane

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EP-to-come on AnalogueTrash, Oct 2022: Scaled-down Expectations.

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