“Good Morning” lopes into being, opening the album with swirling synth pads before taking the listener into a deep dark hole of repetitive beats and ever-morphing bass. The music on High Cube Drifter varies between dark, somber dirges which morph into uplifting semi-rave anthems to glitch-battered, FM-synthesized synth nerd jams that transform into sonic elegies to a higher power. I want to be hopeful but a certain 45th president of the world sets my teeth on edge whenever he speaks and makes my heart stop when I think he’s got the big red nuclear button inches away from his tiny, Diet Coke shriveled, syphilitic finger at all times.” I’ve got the fear ::ĭespite the dire tone expressed therein, CRT continues to progress and evolve in his music, making the most of whatever time he has left on this earth. With weapons of mass destruction at their most powerful and so-called leaders of the free world at their most unhinged, however, this truly feels more imminent than ever. “ And every age of humanity has felt it was imminent. “ Every age has proclaimed apocalypse was on their doorstep, arriving tomorrow and delivered for free,” says Charles Terhune. High Cube Drifter, CRT’s first album of 2019, is the story of survival in a post-collapse world where technology exists in fits and starts while humanity struggles to not just move on but to get by and survive. I’m lucky to be alive and even luckier to be able to continue to do the things I love, one of which is make music.” I walked away from the accident but the lessons I learned from it stay with me. One of these was making more music that comes closer to what I hear in my mind. Instead, I saw images of everything I’ve yet to accomplish. When it stopped, and I knew my daughter (and my dog) were safe, I realized it wasn’t my life that had flashed before my eyes. “ They hit me on the driver’s side which spun us out then rolled the car three times. “ I was nearly killed in a car accident in the summer of 2018,” says CRT. High Cube Drifter (M-Tronic, 2019) is the album Cathode Ray Tube (aka CRT, aka Charles Terhune) almost didn’t get to make. The high cube drifter wonders what this world is coming to day after day, collapse after collapse.” ~CRT The high cube drifter wakes up to oily, smokey sunrises and goes to sleep after lurid, vibrant sunsets. The high cube drifter sifts through the artifacts and debris of a world they realized was their domain but only when it was too late. The high cube drifter lives in a world where nothing is available and the only freedom is far away. The high cube drifter remembers a time when everything was permissible but nothing was free. The high cube drifter commands nothing but the clothes on their back and a handful of dust. The high cube drifter watches from a cliff overlooking the remains of a broken world.
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