Scene And Heard by: William McGuirk | May 16, 2012 10:55 PM
Future History
Loss:/Self
Self Released
What Future History have created with their debut Loss:/Self is cinematic in scope, orchestral in intent, apocalyptic in evocation. Epic without being ponderous, even as the massive slabs of emotive rock come crashing down, the five piece have constructed from over 40 instruments, a soundtrack to this eve of destructive clay footed governing shaky ground zero zeitgeist, a soundtrack to Mad Max riding fast and loose into these North America War of the Words gated cul de sacs we live in. Those chunky riffs are collapsing suburbs, those driving beats are instructions. “I’ve seen The Future baby and its murder!”, as the bard of Montreal says. Those plaintive vocals are pleas to dead gods by selfs mired in selfishness, buried under relentless piles of self interest, shelfs of self, strata of self, deep mirror coated canyons of self.
Yet there is hope in the acoustic, redemption in the reach, opportunity in the rising, salvation in the minor and heroics in the mass marching forward. The Future History is what we make now. The Future History is unfurling before our eyes and in our ears is the magnificence of the human spirit.
Loss:/Self finds itself at the centre of the uncertain and its grand scale may yet define this uneasy year.
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