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 type. Throughout its three acts, it blends heavy metallic, 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 components 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 take 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 unwell, 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 understood 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 sort of so satisfying as another dip into a stunning river, endlessly flowing into ceaselessly. Perhaps it’s doable to die fortunately ever after.”
Stream the album under.
Physician Darkish is the second new album to reach from The Residents for the reason that dying of their co-founder and chief composer, Hardy Fox, in 2018. The band has no confirmed reside dates on the books as of but, however hinted that they’re planning a tour for fall 2025 in a current video.
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<p><strong><em>Physician Darkish</em> Tracklist:</strong><br />01. Prelude<br />02. Metallic Insanity<br />03. White Guys with Weapons<br />04. Maggot Remembers<br />05. Pressure<br />06. She Was By no means Lovelier<br />07. The Present<br />08. Remembering Mom<br />09. Contemplation<br />10. Survived<br />11. Calm Earlier than<br />12. Circle of Horns<br />13. Unchanged<br />14. The Present Retains Giving<br />15. A Selection?<br />16. Ol’ Man River<br />17. Take Me to the River</p>
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