Repetition by Kill-Kennie

For fans of Jeffrey Lewis, Daniel Johnston, The Velvet Underground, old-school slowcore, and ending up in conversations with strangers about shows you’ll never watch, Repetition by Kill-Kennie presents an anti folk slice of life depicting a stagnant speaker with no clear path ahead. Repetitive songwriting intentionally drives us into madness alongside the speaker, drawing us into this intimate, lo-fi space and prompting us to search for our own experiences which align with this emotion. A simultaneous lyrical fixation on the concept of the radio suggests that mass culture has too been afflicted by similar repetition. Ironically, once we were given unlimited access to music, movies, and all other art, our adventurousness may have taken a dive, since we now get the choice to only experience art which we already love. Controlled as the radio was by corporate interests, its randomness at least forced us out of our comfort zone, the sort of push that we along with the speaker desperately crave to end our anxious, stagnant spiral.