Photo credit: Ivi Maiga Bugrimenko
Brazilian duo, Deafkids, recently shared their new track, “Reflexo,” via Neurot Recordings, along with an official video. It’s taken from their upcoming album Cicatrizes Do Futuro (Scars Of The Future), due to arrive on LP, CD and Digital formats, 29th May.
Pre-order Cicatrizes Do Futuro here: https://neurotrecordings.ffm.to/cicatrizes
“The lyrics speak of the “architects of illusion,” the manipulative intention behind the voices that offer a path that leads not to autonomy, but to disorientation.” The band says, continuing, “The goal is never to liberate, but to make people dependent on their false guidance, alienated and fuelling an eternal cycle of need, dependence, and false leadership, with perverse mastery and narratives designed to convince entire populations. Fabricated threats, persuasive propaganda, addictive technological devices and “civilising” missions that are essential to justify the unjustifiable: exploitation, wars and terrible crimes against innocent peoples for domination and power. It’s a cursed script that repeats itself, cycle after cycle, century after century. The language changes, the enemy is redesigned, technologies advance and become more dangerous. We became a reflection of the shadows and evil forces that drive our reality.”
Cicatrizes Do Futuro is the band’s first non-collaborative full length since 2019’s Metaprogramação. The nine-track album forges a path beyond the conventions and boundaries of static musical genres. “Reflexo” (“Reflex”) takes on the band’s most electronic facet, with an afro-industrial minimalist beat complemented by an altered 2-3 clave, submerged in polyrhythms by Sarine‘s blended drum/percussion/SPD-X kit and massive eerie synthesisers by Leal.
Across the new album, electronic fury and feverish organic percussion collide with a relentless Latin American punk spirit.
“Conceptually, the album is a visceral diagnosis of a world intoxicated by its own fictions of power, tracing the anatomy of a systemic grand deception and exploring its mechanics of psychological, social, and material domination, the indelible marks imprinted on bodies and minds and it’s catastrophic consequences. It is a journey from the poisoned and addicted collective psyche to the desperate search for an antidote, while the future seems to be already cursed by the very forces that pretend to build it. Yet, for all its thematic weight, Cicatrizes Do Futuro is hypnotically danceable – physical and ritualistic music that demands body movement as a form of mental cleansing. The album doesn’t just reflect a fractured and violent world — it breathes desire to live and resist through new sonic paths.”
They continue, “Our music comes from the perception of the environmental, political, and moral toxicity that permeates our realities under such conditions. In the context of the album, the scars are those of a brutally stolen past reflected in a wicked future. A permanent mark of violence is also a memory that will never be silenced!”
Cicatrizes Do Futuro tracklisting:
01 Parasita (Parasite)
02 Cicatrizes (Scars)
03 Profecia (Prophecy)
04 Simulacro (Simulacrum)
05 Advertência (Warning)
06 Reflexo (Reflex)
07 Feitiço (Spell)
08 Possessão Coletiva (Collective Possession)
09 Em Transe (In Trance)
Formed in 2010 in Volta Redonda/Rio de Janeiro and signed with the North-American label Neurot Recordings since 2017, the work of multi-instrumentalists Douglas Leal (vocals, guitar, electronics, samplers, percussive, artwork, etc) and Marian Sarine (drums, percussive, electronics, bass) consistently blends the raw spirit of noise and punk with complex global rhythms and electronic experimentation, creating a vibrant and provocative body of work that challenges musical and aesthetic conventions.
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