"This is the way the world ends", a child's voice croons during the hidden outro of Gaslamp Killer's long-awaited debut album Breakthrough, and it clearly marks out the album that preceded it as an intentionally apocalyptic affair. It's dark, brooding, and drenched in weighty atmospherics, and sure, it's all of these dread-inducing things that you'd associate with the end times. But more importantly than that, it's also an exuberant, thrilling and joyous slab of giddily inventive noise. The apocalypse need not be a dour event so, like a Ballard protagonist, why not learn to enjoy the divergent possibilities offered by impending doom? Gaslamp Killer...
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