.kilokish's new glitchy popera explores the dissonance of modern American life.
felt at times like a cartoon diary that sprouted legs and couldn’t outrun the philosophical grief she detailed — Kish transports us into a neon-lit arcade where our senses are overwhelmed by blinking lights, bleeping sound effects, sticky surfaces, and sugary smells. “Ohhh, arcade! Let’s play,” an anonymous voice chimes on the album’s opener. The chaotic dinging of game consoles and metallic clash of pinballs reverberate in infinite directions vying for attention.
The arcade game structure captures the thrilling choice of partaking in entertaining distraction and the benign disappointment that winning was never an option in modern life. Our daily feeds are shiny and enticing like PacMan chasing after colorful batches of fruit. But ultimately, both are an artful simulation of survival that can create a horrific rift in reality if we stare at the screen too long.
“I still fall prey to the same wants and I still look at ads for skincare products and I’ll still buy that and get this,” she says. “That feeling of needing more power, needing more beauty, needing more respect, needing more love, needing more things is kind of [what] all the songs are about and my relationship to those ideas. It’s owning the fact that I’m not exempt.
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