There was no scarcity of aural expositions on the grim actuality of effectively… actuality. However in Korfian’s Apathy Star, he digs deeper into the darkest recesses of our psyches with each software at his disposal. The lyrics don’t try to decorate up the ennui of changing into numb to tragedy – strains reminiscent of “I scroll by way of tragedy, I’m overexposed, I’m a star of apathy,” refuse to sugar-coat how monochrome static now hums the place serotonin needs to be. With the LP’s very title, Digital Brutalism, he eclipses the place we have now change into as a society whereas channelling the aesthetics of darkish isolation each sonically and visually within the official music video.
Spiritual iconography within the visuals collides with the darkwave, ambient industrial mechanical tooth of the monitor. There’s a way of soul-drenched sermon in the way in which the music mourns the occasions which are consuming us, one miserable headline at a time. Korfian’s voice, drenched in haunting reverb, utters confessions like “linked on-line however inhumanely secluded,” and “do my actions matter when they’re drowning in code,” pushing the existential weight even deeper.
Korfian is the moniker of Athens-based artist Spyros Psarras, a graphic designer who, since 2017, has developed from uncooked experimentation into this pointed fusion of haunting vocals, introspective storytelling, and digital textures. On Apathy Star, he engineers a story about apathy, identification, and looking for that means in fractured digital realities. The whole lot about Apathy Star is a cerebrally thematic triumph; if document labels received’t be banging down his door, swathes of sapiosexuals can be lining as much as devour the digital pulse of his societally enforced nihilism.
Apathy Star is now out there on all main streaming platforms; for the complete expertise, watch the official music video on YouTube.
– Overview by Amelia Vandergast
