Camgirl by Crippling Alcoholism

For fans of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Chelsea Wolfe, Touche Amore, and the subversion of presently popular aesthetics in alternative rock radio, Camgirl by Crippling Alcoholism illuminates the unresolved trauma pulling the strings of our deeply sick culture. Where goth rock subverted the earliest reaches towards synthetic pop music by creating something self-consciously undead and anticommercial, Crippling Alcoholism identifies the already soulless interior of contemporary loud rock, parading around its empty body while mocking its supposed purpose. Elements of first wave goth rock appear to facilitate this connection, as starkly chorused guitar riffs augment an already emotionally annihilated, melancholically groaning vocalist. Simultaneously, these vocals call back to loud rock with their enormous production, blending with an overall instrumental field brimming with energy as our speakers sit at a constant straining maximum. Where we may expect to hear the cartoonishly passionate love stories or vapidly empty fables of the radio, however, we’re instead met with the cold recitation of life’s barely-hidden horrors. Culture crumbles at the feet of sadistic hierarchy, converting every life, every song, every word into pure tragedy.