Thanks for the acknowledgement, lyndonhamer. The album just freaks me out. There's plenty of anger and bitterness in the other two, but this just seems apocalyptic. Ashes In The Fall, to me, is the pinnacle of said sensation. The 1984 (Orwell's book, truly nightmarish stuff) references only make matters worse. Zach's style of writing is more abstract and imagery-based on TBOLA, though still full of contempt for injustice and capitalist madness, though I've also had some thoughts on the whole major label hypocrisy issue. So, that's why this album really feels so unsettling lyrically (but also the music has a very disturbing quality, if you ask me) I think Zach was in some sort of way "predicting" most of the things that were about to happen in the next few wears. I bought this in 2003 and the world was already fucked up in the whole Bush-Conservative-Oil company cesspool. The winning point of it is that Zach's words, like I said, are somewhat less straightforward, they've become (sadly) truly timeless, still full of power.
Thanks for the acknowledgement, lyndonhamer. The album just freaks me out. There's plenty of anger and bitterness in the other two, but this just seems apocalyptic. Ashes In The Fall, to me, is the pinnacle of said sensation. The 1984 (Orwell's book, truly nightmarish stuff) references only make matters worse. Zach's style of writing is more abstract and imagery-based on TBOLA, though still full of contempt for injustice and capitalist madness, though I've also had some thoughts on the whole major label hypocrisy issue. So, that's why this album really feels so unsettling lyrically (but also the music has a very disturbing quality, if you ask me) I think Zach was in some sort of way "predicting" most of the things that were about to happen in the next few wears. I bought this in 2003 and the world was already fucked up in the whole Bush-Conservative-Oil company cesspool. The winning point of it is that Zach's words, like I said, are somewhat less straightforward, they've become (sadly) truly timeless, still full of power.