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I completely forgot about this yesterday so, here's a belated #FavoriteAlbumFriday. Fear of a Blank Planet is a concept album about growing up in the twenty-first century and discovering that modern life has somehow managed to provide infinite stimulation while simultaneously draining meaning from nearly everything it touches. The album follows a teenage protagonist—or perhaps an entire generation compressed into a single voice—as he drifts through a haze of prescription medication, video games, internet addiction, consumer culture, and emotional detachment. He is not overtly rebellious, nor particu...Read more
#FavoriteAlbumFriday Still Life by Opeth is, on the surface, a tale of forbidden love, religious persecution, exile, vengeance, and the sort of body count one generally associates with exceptionally poorly moderated town meetings. Beneath that, however, it functions as a gothic meditation on the inevitable collision between private conviction and public dogma, rendered through a succession of riffs so melancholic and labyrinthine that they seem less composed than excavated from some forgotten crypt beneath the collective unconscious. It is the account of a man exiled from his homeland for the grievo...Read more