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Uncanny Valley

by FALSE BROTHER

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Reborn in the cloud To bathe in the noise Wade through the fog Follow the voice Conceived in desire Born in a dream Seeds of a new life In the Pregnant Machine Fall in the light...
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An endless flood Streaming psychic waste all symbols collapse in a rush of empty sensation Liquid ground constant flow under foot motion sickness rapid currents of accumulation Temporal flux suspended in collapse paralyzed subject overwhelmed by auto-production speed With nowhere to find relief Wash away, fall into, drown beneath...Icy streams of calculation Fade away, dissolve into, disappear...All that’s solid melts into air Rapid exchange saturates the globe sprawling networks meltdown frozen relations Species drift anthropocene in flames total withdrawal caught up into runaway feedback Mobile enclosures circulating control in every direction all roads lead to immanent eclipse an infinite expanse a virtual abyss Wash away, fall into, drown beneath...Icy streams of calculation Fade away, dissolve into, disappear...All that’s solid melts into air
3.
Look at their faces Coming down the line Agony and ecstasy Human and divine Glassy eyes A solemn gaze Plastic skin A sacred frame Clothed in glory and bathed in light Children of God and heirs of life Assembled together without pain Born incorrupt and without stain Power and proportion, passion and grace Immaculate marriage of the sacred and profane Infinite mind incarnate in silicone Unto us a new child is born Look at their bodies Curvature and line Strength and elegance of Angelic design Flawless shape Fair and free A plastic race Sovereign machine Clothed in glory and bathed in light Children of God and heirs of life Assembled as one at the end of days A new creation without constraint Power and proportion, passion and grace Immaculate marriage, of the sacred and profane Infinite mind, incarnate in silicone Unto us a new child is born
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Weightless 03:52
Roam astray through the barren desert of the real Wander for miles and miles through the wasteland of yesterday's ruins Walk away The end has already come and it’s gone The monuments have all collapsed the gods are resigned to silence Fragments of a former world rearranged to hide the truth Appearance is all that remains Amusement is the only end Possible to conceive A Weightless world Comes to the fore Swifter than thought Thin as a shadow Cast to the ground Disappear Behind a dense fog of pictures and sounds Where the substance of self dissolves Into a circle of seamless exchange Reappear In a pastiche of symbols and signs Abandon all memory Drift into a timeless expanse Empty noise pours out of a banal masquerade eyes move across the crowded room finding nothing but familiar strangers A dim light shines On every face and in every eye A festival of flashing desire An escape from every nagging doubt, anxious dread, and unease A Weightless world Comes to the fore Swifter than thought Thin as a shadow Cast to the ground
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Cut it down Break the links of the golden chain Cut it out Discard all corporeal norms In and out Move between disparate bodies and forms Open up Open wide to the powers at play Even though Even though we’re still confined to flesh Skin and blood must surrender to steel Even though The boundaries appear fixed in place At once a new world will appear Sever all bonds Tear down the sky Flatten the sphere Fashion a ladder to plunder the clouds Interface to command Integrate to compute Intercourse and produce Man is born from the ground of artificial terrain
6.
Empty Time 02:16
Empty time... The past is on repeat Each moment comes and goes The clock ticks forward By the logic of the ghosts Empty time...
7.
Like a waking dream desire looks into what cant be, but still must find an image to animate Virtual caress uncorrupted by blood and flesh, beyond the limits of material constraints Intimate design manifest between world and mind, realized in affection running deeper than skin Nature and history coalesce at euphoric speed, at once Simulation, finally set free Are these the lips is this face that cast a thousand ships, into the sea? Are these the lips, is this face that cast a thousand ships, into the sea? O what a world! Of what delight we dream Every step as utility O what a world! Of what delight we dream Every breath as utility Like a waking dream Delusion integrates all belief, to compose an image of reality Synthetic bliss Consumes all blood and flesh,in the end Leaving only ghostly remains Nature and intelligence compound and compress,at once generating fatal consequence The Human frame Subject to myth and praise,erased Annihilation under way Are these the lips is this face that cast a thousand ships, into the sea? Are these the lips is this face that cast a thousand ships, into the sea? Cut off the branch, burn all remains All that binds us here below Cut off the branch, burn all remains All that binds us here below
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Rumors of wealth Visions of war The world still turns With increasing remorse Reality protests With tremors and shakes The angel of history Slams her feet on the breaks Normalized crisis At exponential speed Strung out mobs clutching their screens Searching for exits From a decadent age With ironic surrender A desperate escape Fissures and cracks Spread through the walls The houses are empty The people are gone Staring into Vacant eyes Grinding teeth The TV streams With no relief Faces are locked A curtain is drawn Upon a setting sun A candle is lit Feel it decay Watch it crumble Attention fades
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Counting down each day until the silence spreads overwhelms the noise When the cloud expands over land and sea to cover every inch of the globe A torrential rain will pour flooding valley and hill,city and field Man, woman, and child swept into the waves till every fragment of our world disappears Data flows through channel and vein action and choice, reason and will Piling wealth hand over fist nature and labor— to fortune and excess squeezing out every last drop from the sweat of your brow and the breath in your lungs crawling on your hands and your knees search for a crumb, then look to the sky for relief? Bent over with your face to the ground waiting on the sound of a voice to appear Walking on the edge of a cliff Staring down in the fog and the mist Whose voice did you hear in the wind Behind the rocks, and the thorns, dust and the dirt? Whose face did you see in the cloud In the haze of the smoke and the light? Waking dreams draw to a close, turn into stone, and sink to the bottom of the sea A voice in the wilderness cries, but no one is there A new tongue of number and code, inside of every mouth and every ear Whose voice did you hear in the wind in the rocks and the thorns dust and the dirt? Whose face did you see in the cloud past the edge of the cliff at the bottom of the abyss? Counting down each day until the silence spreads overwhelms the noise A torrential rain will pour flooding valley and hill,city and field Man, woman, and child swept into the waves till every fragment of our world disappears

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FALSE BROTHER - Uncanny Valley LP (LUNGS-159)
Uncanny Valley is a conceptually dense road map of the total disintegration and decline of human ascendancy. The album traces the momentum of technological acceleration through the dissolution of the human subject into the eager surrender of autonomy to algorithmic sovereignty. Each song is clouded by the disorienting fog of a world immersed in the bliss of digital spectacle and illusion. The release of Uncanny Valley in the spring of 2020 is particularly timely in the midst of unprecedented social and economic collapse in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.

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released April 24, 2020

All songs written, recorded, and mastered by False Brother

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