3Teeth -- Sell Your Face

A nice dose of driving industrial aggression updated for an age of facial recognition, Facebook and 'swatting'. By contrast the 'faces on the money' is one of the oldest cultural practices - 'capital' literally means 'head' allowing us to get CAPitalism, deCAPitate, and baseball CAP all from the same source.

There is also a hint of where youthful industrial and fundamentalist Islam overlap - neither seems overly pleased with human faces plastered everywhere or shallow young women shopping. Scrap back a little further and I suspect will find deep male longing for community distorted into rage by the emptiness of post-modernity. This sort of music has gnashing teeth - and it is supposed to.

During the 'Eye Vs. Spy' concert last winter I was surprised to find that old-school industrial music and videos were still culturally relevant to me because the wars, pollution, social rot, commercialism anger they reflect are still there. Our cities are still decaying industrial mechanical-skeletons covered with a thin veneer of holographic Web2.0 skin.  Staring at the CN Tower lit-up like a psychedelic party-favour across a gritty wharf while getting patted down to enter a concert drove that message home.  

When of the greatest real-world 'cyber-punk' concepts is the idea that one way to beat facial recognition technology is Goth/Punk/New Wave hair-cuts and make-up.  


CAPTION: Anti Face - This face is unrecognizable to several state-of-art face detection algorithms

I'll stop now - but it is hard to stop when filled with the dark energy of listening to this song on repeat.