Our Pathetic Age
DJ Shadow
2019
Our Pathetic Age offers a scathing commentary on modern life. Climate change, obsession with technology, and human atrocities are all topics of discussion here. Shadow is wrangling with our contemporary malaise. DJ Shadow said that “despite the title, it’s a hopeful, vibrant album“
He elaborated that “People are addicted to, and addled by, distraction; they’re angry and confused, and disaffected by their own governmental institutions. There are songs that are inspired by this energy and seek to harness it, to make sense of it. In some cases, there are attempts to salve the wound; in others, the songs merely observe but don’t offer solutions.”
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Rocket Fuel
DJ Shadow – Our Pathetic Age
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