Style: Darksynth, synthwave
Primary Emotions/Themes: Life is brutal, technology offers a way to overcome it... Kickpuncher offers a way to overcome it
Thoughts: Life sucks. Life fucking sucks. We're all just pawns in a game that we have no control of. The elite control everything, and there's no fighting it... there's no way out. We just live to feed the machine and then we die.
The future isn't bright. The future is a dark dystopia where everything is monitored, everything is controlled. No escape. No individuality. Nothing... we are doomed. There is no resistance... we are born to die.
There are small acts of rebellion though. Short bouts of non-compliance that can start to unravel the machine. Kickpuncher has given us one such thing through LiveDieRepeat. An album that takes the grotesque and inhospitable future and channeled that rage and discontent into forty minutes of hard driving darksynth.
I don't know why I'm drawn to this music. There is seemingly nothing special about it at first glance. It's just another darksynth album. Something about it though speaks to me on a deeper level than most albums in this genre. Maybe it's the non-chatelaine way that the woman is sitting on the cover... yeah she knows that life sucks, but here's something we can do to fight back.
The music has that same casual resistance to it. The melodies are catchy, but have that mean driving bass to them that only darksynth has. The combination of the bright synths with the thunderous bass is one of the main draws for me here. It's not unique, but it's damn good.
LifeDieRepeat is an album to plop on the turntable when you want to say fuck you to the world. It knows that everything sucks, and it offers just a tiny bit of help to bring the world away from complete oligarchy. Never surrender, never stop fighting, never give up, LiveDieRepeat.
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