It’s a dead giveaway
We’re Doomed for Monday
The cold sun smiles as we decay
It’s A dead giveaway
Curse Mackey resurfaces with Imaginary Enemies, an album steeped in industrial menace and shadowed synth reverie. Channeling the cold-eyed assault of classic Wax Trax! releases and threading cinematic atmospherics, Mackey constructs sound as a sprawling city after curfew: dimly lit, riddled with unseen threats.
Doomed For Monday, the album’s centerpiece, rides relentless rhythms and spectral drones. Mackey’s voice, a charged invocation, slices sharply through the noise, a transmitter tuned to intimate terror and ecstatic unraveling. His vocals drip anxiety, touching raw nerves of spiritual transgression and personal implosion.
Lyrically, the track delves deep into psychic dissolution and corrosive self-reflection, confronting despair head-on. Images of decay and impending ruin reinforce the brutal realization of entrapment within destructive cycles. Mackey’s bleak poeticism acknowledges that personal collapse can be both beautiful and brutal. Fans of Skinny Puppy’s industrial severity, the EBM grooves of Front 242, the dark sheen of Clan of Xymox, or the unsettling synth provocations of Fad Gadget will find Mackey’s latest release familiar ground for stomping their combat boots in a dance frenzy. Doomed For Monday conjures music made for wandering the wastelands of late-night introspection, a dance on the knife’s edge of dread and desire.
Visually, the video careens between fragmented snapshots of Mackey’s past performances, stitched together into a fevered montage. It’s the disorienting feeling of recalling memories you never quite lived through clearly: frayed, frantic, flashing glimpses of stage-lit rituals, blurred by the relentless momentum of time.
Watch the video for “Doomed For Monday” below:
Imaginary Enemies marks the compelling conclusion of a trilogy initiated by Instant Exorcism (2019) and intensified with Immoral Emporium (2022). While its predecessors grappled with internal turmoil and societal erosion, this third installment emerges as a sombre climax, lamenting both artistic and personal devastation, yet seeking fragments of redemption amidst the ruin.
Produced by Curse Mackey alongside longtime creative ally Chase Dobson, Imaginary Enemies is enriched by contributions from Jake Garcia (The Black Angels) and Rona Rougeheart (SINE). The album achieves a paradoxical blend: at once deeply personal and expansively cinematic; isolated, yet brimming with electrifying vitality.
Listen to Doomed For Monday below. Imaginary Enemies is available to order on CD, vinyl LP here through Negative Gain Productions.
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