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Originally posted by Wilkes
I agree.
I felt that baroque pop and new wave is channeled in an attempt to overcome the restrains placed on the individual within society much in liege with the post-dystopian Machtpolitik. Moreover, I felt that the album is a silent nod towards James Joyce's Ulysses and Saul Bellow's Herzog with its reflection on society. The point raised about Arkadia sadly I have to disagree with, I suggest that it is far more in liege with a Orwellian society with a dictator with complete control rather then an arcadian. Reflecting further, I think we could look at the thematic approach that lines itself perfectly with the broken, single-minded society as told within L'Etranger.
There is defiantly more then meets the surface in this album.
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The amalgation of different sources such as the Sturm und Drang movement and the aforementioned new wave is quite adroit indeed and certainly something to behold as seemingly disparate notions blend together seamlessly in a single stream of consciousness narrative. Nods to the placid transcribing of capacious works such as Ulysses and Herzog have previously rendered more flagrant artists obsolete, and as such their ebullient embracement here should be all the more applauded as a bold step against the insipid contractions which can instantiate immutable destiny.
In summary I would postulate that instead of highlighting that which makes one a benign attraction, Lem conflagrates and discovers the lascivious. Where Camus has previously failed in the absurdism of his magnum opus, the sarcastically gauche approach found on 1+Lem becomes particularly salient only after having finished the listening experience, once you are driving in a gasoline-powered vehicular entity to work, and find that while Orwell may have been particularly munificient in his treatment of Bauhaus & Biedermeier, the Leitmotifs on this EP are truly the reason why Krautrock no longer has a place in our society today, and the Ostalgie of the late Thomas Mann may really have been connected more deeply to Nihilism than we could ever find out.