After three a long time within the making, Physician Darkish, The Residents’ new album — and three-act opera — has arrived.
Marking The Resident’s first studio album since 2020’s Metallic, Meat & Bone: The Songs of Dyin’ Canine, the brand new album speaks to the group’s irreverent and confrontational model. Throughout its three acts, it blends heavy steel, avant-garde experimentalism, and symphonic prospers (orchestrated by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Edwin Outwater), finally entangling the songs in an unpredictable, nightmarish net of sound.
Amidst these preparations, the band tells a narrative that mixes parts of the tragic teenage suicide pact that led to Judas Priest’s notorious 1990 subliminal message trial and the lifetime of physician-assisted euthanasia fanatic Jack Kevorkian, taking a stark have a look at distress, life, and dying, with a theatrical flare of gallows humor all through.
“The Buddha mentioned that life is distress,” the band mentioned in a press release. “For the terminally in poor health, dying in ache, life is distress compounded — however what comes subsequent? Is there a heaven, a nirvana, a paradise with 72 virgins for each martyr? Nobody is aware of, however what is thought is that nothing makes people extra uncomfortable than dying — the last word unknown, the opposite aspect of zero, the eternal void. However perhaps dying is nothing greater than a heat feeling, after a lifetime of no matter distress we select to embrace, suggesting that nothing is kind of so satisfying as another dip into a stunning river, endlessly flowing into eternally. Perhaps it’s doable to die fortunately ever after.”
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Physician Darkish is the second new album to reach from The Residents because the dying of their co-founder and chief composer, Hardy Fox, in 2018. The band has no confirmed dwell dates on the books as of but, however hinted that they’re planning a tour for fall 2025 in a latest video.
Physician Darkish Paintings:
Physician Darkish Tracklist:
01. Prelude
02. Metallic Insanity
03. White Guys with Weapons
04. Maggot Remembers
05. Stress
06. She Was By no means Lovelier
07. The Present
08. Remembering Mom
09. Contemplation
10. Survived
11. Calm Earlier than
12. Circle of Horns
13. Unchanged
14. The Present Retains Giving
15. A Alternative?
16. Ol’ Man River
17. Take Me to the River
