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Originally posted by Dephira
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.
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