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about

THE ONLY WAY WE KNOW TO HAVE FUN brings together tracks from a plethora of EPs and singles created during the summer of 2020 in the tradition of medieval speedcore, esoteric grime, and horse riding ambient. All are presented as the fragments of a love story unfolding in multiple layers of time and space amongst various prominent themes such as allegories of the occult of mass media mind control, dangers of overindulgence in fantasies or illusions, 'primers' that walk among us, virtual/ online legend tripping, simulacra/beauty of nature, criticism on the concept of power and economic world order, undefined holes in the sky and a surreal visionary of England's fauna and flora.

Even if not in its preconception and initial creative stages, the work's artistic modus operandi is relatively resemblant and heavily influenced by the Beatles and the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band's band-within-a-band idea as it also is conceptualized as a performance - but as a fictional internet-based organization from the future legislating the research and development of the 'hyperreal' instead of being an Edwardian military band and have an album under this artist name.

Created using a ThinkPad X230 [running Qubes] to scry on itʼs black surface, on the album brute use of medieval and Gaelic music samples is brought together with bubblegum acid techno, FM sound design, drone doom, and a relatively abstract form of UK grime. Also, still not abandoning the interest in the 'technological', duo's interest in artificial intelligence in creative applications pursues a more under the hood and philosophical approach, especially under the light of esoteric influences. Such experiments can be seen on most of the shorter tracks but most dominantly on the album's opener track Knowledge, where the Council's approach to the conjuration of a melody can be heard.

With the aid of the extra dose of text included in the track titles and throughout the very collage-like looking album sleeves, the plethora of publications under the same artist name presents highly theatrical and dreamy imagery of the world combining personal experiences such as cycling through the London under quarantine in the abandoned streets witnessing a sequence of apparitions and visions covering the almost entire timespan of the town or using a multiple angle mirror placed against the iMac as a tool for scrying to highly vivid visions from the distant past, to a future where green and archaic sceneries of Londinium where the proof of god has been laid out by math, and people are most jolly artful. Amongst the visions of beautiful and straightforward spring days spent at a local park, we witness the Humankind freed of the artificial situations we, for centuries, have created for our psyches may find comfort by averting what we find truest as a peril to the amenity of our personal constructs. A new type of existential dread, enhanced and deepened by the 'digital' has been the first mental plague, but a new form of 'love of god', the state of being freed from such human traps of ego, the pathology of the brain, errors encountered contacting archetypes of oneself within has ended.

If desired, the album can be studied or experienced further on an abundance of digital sub-releases [EPs, nightly-builds, and singles], which also are available for download/purchase. Along with the OCCULT POP singles, THE ONLY WAY WE KNOW TO HAVE FUN is regarded to be the tip of this pyramid of this creative work/release structure, which in itself is a form of medieval feudalism.


THE ONLY WAY WE KNOW TO HAVE FUN title is inspired by the Porcupine Tree track Sever. The income from the sales of THE ONLY WAY WE KNOW TO HAVE FUN LP and apparel will be spent on the good fortune of our stupid earth.

credits

released July 13, 2020

Illustration of the Tree of Crystal by Sin Eater, courtesy of Scarlet Imprint
La belle dame sans merci, Frank Bernard Dicksee (1853–1928), Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK / Given by Mrs Yda Richardson, 1913. / Bridgeman Images

Mastered by Alyn Sclosa

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