Korfian’s Industrial Pop Lament ‘Apathy Star’ is a Folk Sermon for the Terminally Screen-Bound

There has been no shortage of aural expositions on the bleak reality of well… reality. But in Korfian’s Apathy Star, he digs deeper into the darkest recesses of our psyches with every tool at his disposal. The lyrics don’t attempt to dress up the ennui of becoming numb to tragedy – lines such as “I scroll through tragedy, I’m overexposed, I am a star of apathy,” refuse to sugar-coat how monochrome static now hums where serotonin should be. With the LP’s very title, Digital Brutalism, he eclipses where we have become as a society while channelling the aesthetics of dark isolation both sonically and visually in the official music video. Religious iconography in the visuals collides with the darkwave, ambient industrial mechanical teeth of the track. There’s a sense of soul-drenched sermon in the way the music mourns the times that are consuming us, one depressing headline at a time. Korfian’s voice, drenched in haunting reverb, utters confessions like “connected online but inhumanely secluded,” and “do my actions matter when they are drowning in code,” pushing the existential weight even deeper. Korfian is the moniker of Athens-based artist Spyros Psarras, a graphic designer who, since 2017, has evolved from raw […] The post Korfian’s Industrial Pop Lament ‘Apathy Star’ is a Folk Sermon for the Terminally Screen-Bound appeared first on A&R Factory.

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There has been no shortage of aural expositions on the bleak reality of well… reality. But in Korfian’s Apathy Star, he digs deeper into the darkest recesses of our psyches with every tool at his disposal. The lyrics don’t attempt to dress up the ennui of becoming numb to tragedy – lines such as “I scroll through tragedy, I’m overexposed, I am a star of apathy,” refuse to sugar-coat how monochrome static now hums where serotonin should be. With the LP’s very title, Digital Brutalism, he eclipses where we have become as a society while channelling the aesthetics of dark isolation both sonically and visually in the official music video. Religious iconography in the visuals collides with the darkwave, ambient industrial mechanical teeth of the track. There’s a sense of soul-drenched sermon in the way the music mourns the times that are consuming us, one depressing headline at a time. Korfian’s voice, drenched in haunting reverb, utters confessions like “connected online but inhumanely secluded,” and “do my actions matter when they are drowning in code,” pushing the existential weight even deeper. Korfian is the moniker of Athens-based artist Spyros Psarras, a graphic designer who, since 2017, has evolved from raw […]

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