FUTURE KULT and the dark reflective cracked mirror of "My Brothers And Me" (Official Video)

 

"we're losing family, my brothers and me..."

The darkly artful, mesmerizing and thoughtful musical and lyrical shapes of FUTURE KULT's spiraling aggressive "My Brothers And Me" from the dynamic duo's eponymous album dropping today (2/25/2022) and heightened by the cinematic visions of director Mac Nixon feels potently relevant. Cardiff bred film composer Sion Trefor and Berlin bred musician/art producer Benjamin Zombori once again have something to say while skewing artistic expectations and leaving indie pretense (and tropes) behind. Of the track, the duo explores, “the mechanisms of aggression with which men have, and continue to engender their own demise - from feuding brothers, to gang wars, to the fall of empires - the inescapable cycles of violence that permeate and entrap our culture.” 

As we all tackle the seemingly continuing devolution of male culture. As we remember how indie artists and labels tackled the predatory nature of some males in power. The fact that 'rape culture' and 'grooming' has been the subject matter within the music business. That fact that Russia is bombing civilian targets in the Ukraine. The fact that my daughter confided in me that she has worn a backpack at music festivals not because she needed to bring things in but that the backpack served as a barrier from men who purposely take advantage of a packed crowd to rub up on girls. All of this is a disturbing reminder of male toxicity, how while most men are good, much too many are not. It is a huge disturbing problem. 

Again, FUTURE KULT's debut eponymous debut album drops today, Friday, February 25, via Action Wolf Records/AWAL. 

-Robb Donker Curtius 

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

https://www.instagram.com/futurekult/

https://www.zombori.net/futurekult

The initial spark of FUTURE KULT caught on in a remote river valley in Hidalgo, deep in the Mexican countryside. For three months in late 2020, film composer Sion Trefor and musician/art producer Benjamin Zombori left their respective lives in Cardiff and Berlin behind and set out to channel the music of the future. What they created, far off the grid, is the sound of everything, now.

Like a trip into a parallel musical universe, the nine tracks of FUTURE KULT are dark, mystical visions of a world coming undone. Unfolding in a mind-bending mass of mangled vocal chants, raw guitars, stark, whipping beats and driving harpsichords, the songs are thematically linked, describing a world in which we are all fighting a battle of retreat against overwhelming technological forces. Algorithms want your soul. They are taking over the world, shaping everything you hear and see.

“When we started working on this record, we became aware that the world has become too complex to be fully grasped,” notes Trefor and Zombori.“Surrounded by paranoia, tragedy, extreme tension and fractured hope, we wanted to create music that courses with everything we feel as humans living in the 2020s.”

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 FUTURE KULT, Gothic / Dark Wave, IDM / Glitch, alt rock, industrial rock, electronica, artsynth, art rock, film composer Sion Trefor, musician/art producer Benjamin Zombori, Cardiff, Berlin, "My Brothers And Me",