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Facs “Strawberry Cough”

The lyrics of “Strawberry Cough” come across like phrases and ideas jotted down into a notebook in the midst of a paranoid depression wedged into a loose, shouty melody. The music itself manifests the misery in a plodding mechanical rhythm, eerie synthesizer ambiance, and sudden interjections of noise that feel like bits of infrastructure suddenly breaking down and falling apart. Despite all this ambivalence about form, musical chaos, and heavy goth atmosphere there’s a proper song at the core of this, a punchy anthemic thing with a chorus that could cut right through an arena should this band ever get the opportunity to play one.

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