The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? (2020, Thrill Jockey)
All I’ve done for the past week, more or less, is listen to conceptual ambient music and watch bad YouTube videos. I think both are starting to fuck with my head a little more than I’d like to admit. I sat down to write something endorsing The Soft Pink Truth’s newish album Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase but I keep coming back to this notion that I feel like I have to fix holes in my brain where I don’t “understand” concepts. For days now I’ve been watching videos from the YouTube Commentary Community endlessly because I just don’t get it. I keep watching it in the hopes that I will eventually understand what drives a man to buy an expensive camera and make a call out video about someone else who made a call out video of someone else making a call out video of someone who is called out for not even the worst part of their persona (they’re all racists, like fucking all of them ) but by doing it I think I’m feeding into a self perpetuating cycle of borderl...