As the claustrophobic intensity of ‘Conditions’ envelops the listener, as the disorienting glitchiness scratches at your consciousness, and the bass pulses, firing salvos of dark energy, it isn’t hard to find yourself experiencing, on some level, the dark world that the song encapsulates – one of addiction, hopelessness, and having hit rock bottom.
But amid these raw, decaying, industrial sounds, glimmers of hope appear in some unexpectedly serene lulls that let the light pour in, and you realize the cliché isn’t just a cliché: when you hit rock bottom, the only way is up!
It comes down to how you view things: are those throbbing bundles of sonic energy, those razor-wire sounds, those pounding beats, those disarming sounds there to hold you back or propel you toward the light? Change your mindset, and you change your perspective; change your perspective and that impossible hill between you and normality becomes a ladder, not a barrier.
So the pulse and the power that increase as the song reaches its climax, the dark tones and stygian textures, scorching guitars that leave a metallic taste in your mouth, the almost impossibly frantic beats, the dark waves and sound of shattered circuits become your launchpad rather than your dungeon, this is actually liberation rather than restraint.
And then…nothing!
In the silence that abruptly replaces the song, you are left to contemplate your own conclusion. But then how the story ends was always yours to decide.
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