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Inspired by the title of a critical text by American theorist Lauren Berlant, whose analysis of the contemporary crisis points to the elusive promise of neoliberalism - particularly its inherent sense of hauntological trauma - Cruel Optimism is offered by English as a reflection “ on how power consumes, augments and ultimately shapes two subsequ...
8 févr. 2017 · Lawrence English’s new opus, Cruel Optimism, follows in the footsteps of his last solo foray Wilderness Of Mirrors: it deals with fear, both without (the continual global hotspots of wrack and ruin now exacerbated by the looming threat of fascist superpowers of the Western world with the end of the tunnel stretching away like the ...
17 févr. 2017 · Cruel Optimism by Lawrence English. 1 . Hard Rain. Ominous but never overwrought, English's moody protest music is executed finely here with a cabal of luminaries.
17 févr. 2017 · With this album, English has created something awe-inspiring: strange, elemental, and profound. Very little music so masterfully evokes the towering, savage beauty of the natural world, and the insignificance of man in the face of its enormity and power.
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17 févr. 2017 · Listen to Cruel Optimism by Lawrence English on Apple Music. Stream songs including "Hard Rain (feat. Thor Harris & Heinz Riegler)", "The Quietest Shore (feat. Thor Harris)" and more.
16 mars 2017 · Lawrence English’s Lauren Berlant-inspired Cruel Optimism is a noise-ambient gem and a work of pained beauty.