Fear of a Blank Planet is pure angst: the lyrics present a conceited emptiness; youth culture as a self-centric mass driven by instant gratification without gratitude. The introduction to the album's thematic character is so one-sided and distinctly inhuman that it heightens the more nuanced existential dread (which can only be human) which builds over its duration - to be exited with a bang. For me at least, this has the album grow from your own initial rejection of the zombie protagonist - a rejection which is recognised in the following track, My Ashes - to something more deserving of sympathy as he realises his own failings and searches for a way out of being "lost in the mall". But the shame of your sympathy is too heavy, and so he "[covers] his tracks" before deciding to "switch off the future" - but by that point your recognition is too late; it should have been in the place of your initial rejection.

lewwatt 18 May 2015

Not for the simple minded i suppose.   1

Kamren 11 Oct 2013

Disturbingly good

gyrhound 15 Oct 2013