save for a reason, what reason? no reason
jack gawks out his window at the deluge of bodies
there are sun spots in his eyes, he’s nod but a carrion
who’s carrying a sock and buskin
face after face after face
jack wades through his forlorn streets
he’s a function of his feed, of all the screens
ed mordake’s got more ways to scream
seems that every doc donning insolvent
promenades with cacophonous ire
that will atrophy within desire
soon as its transience reveals the mire
now the pyre dies into ashes
but there’ s no one to witness the passage
or abandon larkspurs at headstone
and grieve the death of our hopes
he’s a breathing gland; his hands fidget
over obscure happenings in some quaint cafe
exudes an overwhelming solipsism
but he’s a xeroxed distortion of the ones he feigns to be
jack sees his cells dividuated then reconstructed and tainted
“now we all feel the same now we all feel the same
except we don’t feel a thing it’s all just things things things”
bootless signs worn out and passed on
maybe there was once some substance
“a wave of joy to feed the machine
just to have it feed it back to me
impress desire upon slates unseen
inexorable refits for a face now"
he sees he sees everything at least what it is he can perceive
media moguls relinquish autonomy to automated desiring
and he cries out every channel is the same
every channel becomes a grave
interred into ones and zeros
our elected mayor now a jackleg hack in silicon-valley schemes
depleted and disquiet he contends with what,
what gurgles beneath him; it’s better to leave it
but jack falls to knees and digs
his hands sphacelate and his will reneged
his sallow face unearthed from relief
ululating in the wave of grief
“a wave of joy to feed the machine
just to have it feed it back to me
impress desire upon slates unseen
refits for a face befitting the machine”
An expansive intermingling of noise rock and art pop from Aussie rockers Agency; All sales from this record go directly to charity. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 22, 2020
Synths abound on the new single from Hearts and Rockets—icy cold, sharp, and minimal, and topped with a punk rock sneer. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 22, 2020