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“Unfinished Sympathy”
: : Massive Attack (1998) : Live at Southside Festival ; Wild Bunch / Virgin Records : :

[ … ] :: Seven course sonic sampler in the scope of … somnambular with a signature twist of precocious ferocious … let’s trance :

… the sleepwalker here, though, as shell-of-a-former-animate dreamweaving comrade going through motions of a state-of-the-modern-zombified commodity … or something to said general effect … a denizen dazed on the clock at the distraction factory … idk, it made sense in my head … onward

massive attack’s Unfinished Sympathy … honestly, this one just segued so right from its predecessor … and maintained its sequential prowess as scenic underscore within our somnambular setlist … the long and short: it vibed with valiance as penultimate opus moment … and “unfinished sympathy:” just self-necessitating resonance … onward

aceyalone, rjd2: A Beautiful Mine … this one always felt lucid dreamlike observations on how to maneuver waking life … a sonic ethnography establishing empirical alternatives to a psychologically malleable plane of reality … said plane being the shown world and its status quo consensus … the tempo feels perpetual counterpoint of the infinite query in and of assumed actuality … aural abstraction of the cerebral concrete [ … ] ::

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