"The city of XK-Masada sprouts like a vast mushroom, a mile-wide dome emerging from the top of a cold plateau on a dry planet that orbits a dying star. ... This planet was once alive -- there is still a scummy sea of algae near the equator that feeds oxygen into the atmosphere, and there is a range of volcanoes near the north pole that speaks of plate tectonics in motion -- but it is visibly dying. There is a lot of history here, but no future."
- from "A Colder War" (2000), by Charles Stross
lyrics
We opened gates to carry us away into the sky
and God knows why we never feared the stars
on the other side...
Sweetly melancholy bedroom pop is rarely as actually vulnerable and personal as it is in this Australian artist's hands. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 21, 2018