Talk first, scream and growl
Control, distort the sound
Follow the rabbit down
In the end times now
Neo Dimes is the musical guise of Denver-based musician Stephen Edmunds, an artist unafraid to tackle the social ills of the digital age with both innovation and lyrical directness. Don’t Think, his latest single, arrives like a clenched transmission ripped from the feed at maximum volume. It moves fast, eyes wide, bass locking the spine while drums circle like a threat. Commanding vocals bark orders from inside the machine. Obedience is the joke…control is the prize.
Don’t Think is obsessed with power: how it spreads, how it flatters, how it eats. Digital-age manipulation, political extremism, manufactured outrage: all fed into a tight, pressurized form that pulls from EBM, cyberpunk, and synthpop, a place he describes as “landing somewhere between Deftones and Depeche Mode.” The result feels like a directive shouted through a megaphone at the edge of collapse.
Lyrically, Don’t Think sketches a bleak civic diagram where truth becomes a chant, repetition replaces thought, and cruelty is framed as currency. The end-times language is merely procedural. People line up, numb and obedient, mistaking submission for safety while propaganda loops tighten. This is mass psychology under fluorescent lights, a culture willingly face-down on the floor.
That rage is personal. As Edmunds puts it: “I lost a career right as my daughter came into the world, a world where she has fewer rights than her mother did and where tyranny is creeping into every facet of life. We’re addicted to the propaganda machines in our pockets and the next micro-financed purchase. It’s omnipresent and inescapable, so yeah, I’m pissed off.”
The video, directed by Wasteland of Wonder, uses rave-glow lobotomy as a metaphor—bright, disorienting, and deeply unsettling. It depicts control as a spectacle, with sedation portrayed as a form of release.
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Neo Dimes’ debut album, Alone, broadens the critique in Don’t Think by addressing not just the content but also the ways it is distributed. It questions passive listening habits and is available on vinyl, cassette, and Bandcamp long before it appears on streaming platforms.
Edmunds is explicit: “The album concept and the release itself is a fuck you to the AI foisted on all of us,” he says. “These songs will make you question your reality while dancing through the darkness.”
Even the artwork participates in the argument. “The single covers convey the album’s story, with each song’s cover serving as a chapter and visual representation of paranoia, persuasion, control, and acceptance that fuse together to form the final album cover.”
This is music that is wired, paranoid, and unsparing…written for a moment when thinking feels dangerous and surrender is sold as relief. Alone will be out in spring 2026.
Purchase Don’t Think on Bandcamp here.
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