“To Possess Is To Be In Control” makes use of lyrical repetition as an
ambiguity of two selves, or a divided self, attempting to consume one
another, while “Red Desert,” named after Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1964
film, portrays the individual subsumed by surrounding environmental
forces.
The seven-minute epic “The Size of Our Desires” acts as the emotional
tipping point of the record; amongst the ominous drone and dense
feedback flutters almost-beatific melodies, while the lyrics reveal a
romantic call to be swept up in the midst of an increasingly
uninhabitable world.
Rather than escape, The Drought dramatises a metamorphosis in which vulnerability is confronted through regeneration.
Noise and aggression no longer act as an affront to react against but
part of a ‘corporeal architecture’ where space, harmony and lyricism
surface from the harsh tropes of industrial music.
The Drought chronologises a transformation through a psychological
famine, new ways of coping akin to plant survival in a desert – to live
without drying out.
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