Here in the final stretches of the second decade of the 21st century, an overwhelming murkiness is taking over art. Blockbuster films and tv shows are coated in shadows and sickly color palettes, the comics frequently inspiring them are doubling down on that and in music apocalyptic trap rules the roost. You’d think the aptly […]
Martis Unruly’s Distant is Queasy Music for Subterraneans
Early on in Distant, Martis Unruly sleepily declares “I look like I’m pissed off/Yet I feel so positive,” the removed tone of the statement jutting up against both the words and the poppy, dystopic “Hollaback Girl” beat. The question posed by that juxtaposition is a classic unreliable narrator dilemma: do we believe Martis’ words? do we believe […]