It’s Wednesday, so let’s get you some new music to keep you going through the rest of the week, shall we?
Today I introduce to you Black Rain, a band that has been around for a long, long time but who has only just resurfaced after 18 years to deliver a new album entitled Dark Pool, which came out last month.
The description of the new album reads:
Dark Pool is a work of hard-edged sonic fiction rooted in cyberpunk’s quintessential neo-noir cityscape/dataspace but projecting into a farther future of biotechnological advancement and alienation.
Partly inspired by the writings of Philip K. Dick protégé K.W. Jeter (particularly 1996’s Edge Of Human, which picked up where Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner left off), and Paolo Bacigalupi’s 2009 novel The Windup Girl, a vision of 23rd century Thailand plagued by genetic and economic terrorism, Dark Pool’s humid dystopia is also acutely Ballardian in its vision of manmade and natural worlds encroaching upon each other: a vivid psychogeography of half-submerged high-rises and hidden jungle laboratories.
Much more about the history of the group can be read at Blackest Ever Black.
Meanwhile, head below to stream “Endourban”.