“Living-in-glory” - Lolita Terrorist Sounds: A Haunting Meditation on History and Uncertainty
Artist: Lolita Terrorist Sounds Single: Living-in-glory Genre: Avant-Garde, Drone, Dark Wave Release Date: September 20th, 2024
Lolita Terrorist Sounds' latest release, “Living-in-glory,” feels like a meditation on tension—personal, political, and historical. The track, an avant-garde blend of drone, industrial clatter, and the unnerving intimacy of ASMR, doesn’t hold your hand through a narrative but instead invites you to sit with a strange discomfort. It’s unsettling and oddly hypnotic, a soundscape that is as much about the space between the notes as the tones themselves.
This track, closing their debut album St. Lola, feels like an act of remembrance, situated in a location heavy with its own haunted past. The music video, recorded on what was once the Berlin Wall strip, carries the weight of histories that bleed through the layers of sound. Kiddy Citny’s live painting, a visual echo to this sonic exploration, adds yet another layer. Citny’s involvement isn’t a mere backdrop; his improvisation syncs with the song’s fluid, raw energy, each brushstroke mimicking the abrasive shifts in the music.
There’s a cinematic quality to “Living-in-glory,” but it’s more like a film you watch through fractured glass—a warped reflection of the present, threaded with fragments of the past. The ambient atmosphere presses in, evoking thoughts of political division and the collapse of systems we once thought were permanent. It’s a track that forces introspection. The world is breaking, the song seems to say, and it’s not offering solutions. It’s here to remind you of the noise in the silence.
“Living-in-glory” doesn’t seek glory in the traditional sense. It’s not a triumphant crescendo but a layered piece of art rooted in uncertainty and ambiguity—an auditory and visual reminder that sometimes, being present with what’s uncomfortable is the only path forward.
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“Living-in-glory” and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating DA DA DA - Best New MusicWe discovered this release via MusoSoup, as part of the artist’s promotional campaign.
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