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DYSTOPIAN THOUGHTS

by NLC & INNOCENT BUT GUILTY

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1.
DAWN HAS NO NAME 05:06
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2.
SWEET AS THE DEVIL'S HOME 06:42
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CHILDISH BEHAVIOUR 05:02
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MARCH OF THE UNICORNS 03:35
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SIX PACKS 06:32
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BACK TO ALBUQUERQUE 07:48
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BUILDING NEW STRATEGIES 08:53
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released January 1, 2023

Mixed by Julien ASH
Digitally mastered by Aloïs L.
Guests : Wolf City : music, guitars, percussions
Pierre-Yves Lebeau : guitars
Liesbeth Houdijk : voices

nouvelleslecturescosmopolites.bandcamp.com
wolfcity1.bandcamp.com
innocentbutguilty.bandcamp.com
apocalypsesounds.bandcamp.com
wolfcitytheband@gmail.com
alois66@free.fr
julien.ash@wanadoo.fr

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"The cover artwork created with the Midjourney AI software looks nothing less than dystopian. On the contrary, it seems to transport us right into a fantasy landscape of untouched nature and meditative calm. As the opening track starts, a beautiful day seems to dawn, the sound seems to confirm the cover images - but is it really that harmless? After all, “where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behaviour” (Guy Debord). In other words, images can turn us into zombies, and isn't that in fact quite dystopian? And in fact, even in the opening track, ominous undertones seem to forebode that there may in fact be some danger lurking ahead. Then the next track launches a fully-fledged rock beat upon us. What was spacious one second becomes physical and claustrophobic the next – we wake up to reality, and we discover that reality itself is (already) the dystopia mentioned in the title.

The tension between mournful piano lines and vocals, cold dark ambient shrouds of electro, and a full-on fuzz/stoner rock set-up tells a story that may be about trying to find hope or, at least, momentary rebellious relief or poetic solace in the real-world dystopia of high-rise housing estates and street violence - or war, police brutality, exploitation, poverty, or any of the other myriad dystopian facets of the state of things which most of us, most of the time, all-too-readily accept as reality. (Incidentally, the album would be perfectly listenable as a soundtrack to any of the above-quoted Guy Debord's films – which of course would make him turn in his early grave; but then again, what wouldn't?) To create this expanded musical palette, three acts have joined forces: drone ambient/electro artist Innocent But Guilty from Bordeaux; the solo project Wolf City from the western suburbs of Paris, exploring the different sides of indie rock through noise, hard, ambient, and post rock; and – by now a steady presence on the attenuation circuit artist roster – NLC (Nouvelles Lectures Cosmopolites) aka Julien ASH and Aloïs L. with their regular guests P-Y Lebeau (guitars) and Liesbeth Houdijk (voice)."

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