By the time the iPhone with its never-ending access to all of the world’s fuckery landed in my hand, my frontal cortex had been fully developed for several years. AKA I’m old, and it means I remember what it was like to have to entertain myself with my own thoughts and not the mental diarrhea of millions and billions of other people’s opinions. And then I became one of those people. So thanks for tuning into my opinion on the new video from Dez Dare for his single, “Talk, Clown.” With a stripped-down noise rock/garage punk sound he’s breaking down the constant distraction we’re encouraged, maybe even forced, to rivet ourselves to. This song is the perfect soundtrack to the funny but devastating reality that we spend most of our days in, worrying about everything that isn’t physically in front of us while we ignore everything that is physically in front of us. It’s off his new record CHERYL! Your Love Shines Down Like A Supernova’s Death via God Unknown Records on June 6th — get it here. Check it out below, and if you’re in the EU, you can see Dez Dare live alongside Thee Alcoholics and Lower Slaughter starting April 9th.
How often do we think about what we miss when we are distracted by shiny things? While fencing with social media, long winded stories, dreams of other lives, unnecessary toys, and irrelevant social experiments with happiness, we miss the things that make up our world.
This album looks at those morsels of time and the bits that fill them, soaking existence… as well as manspreaders. Those people should be added to the 7th circle of hell… or suburbia. Either is probably a similar commute!
- Apr 09 New Cross Inn London [UK] w/ Thee Alcoholics + Lower Slaughter + Dez Dare
- Apr 10 La Malterie Lille [FR] w/ Thee Alcoholics + Dalaïdrama
- Apr 11 Les Nouveaux Sauvages Paris [FR] w/ Thee Alcoholics + Ragequit + Dez Dare
- Apr 12 Magasin 4 Brussels [BE] w/ Noir Boy George + Thee Alcoholics + Dez Dare + Fuck Police + Chafouin
