Back from another world tour, The Ocean Collective from Berlin brings its restless exploration of our troubled nature close to home. Their new single Preboreal opens with haunting synths, shimmering vibraphones and beckoning horn-sections.
Purposely building towards an explosive finale lamenting the loss of our critical faculties, The Ocean deliver a striking mirror of our souls.
Lyrics:
no grasp on reality, attention shaping identities
weโve lost our capacities
to construct something tangible
obfuscate the past
implode it with the future into
an undifferentiated mass
Itโs never-ending
a type of never-ending
never-ending presence, lost inside
we have all lost our way out long ago
the spectacle is not a cluster of images
rather itโs a social relation
mediated by all those images:
images are all there is
the quality of life is being impoverished
embrace the loss of knowledge
and critical thinking
the spectacle
is not a cluster of images, rather itโs a social relation
mediated by all those images:
images are all there is
the quality of life is being impoverished
we embrace the rash degradation of knowledge and
critical thought
critical thought
we are no longer critical
the spectacle is not a cluster of images, rather, itโs a social relation
mediated by all those images:
images are all there is
the quality of life is being impoverished
we embrace the rash degradation of knowledge
and critical thought
critical thought
we are not
critical
