A sober and self-effacing admission from the lead singer of a band defined by a glamorous and stimulating aesthetic a band that headlined Red Rocks and effortlessly sold-out national tours.
“Sometimes it ain’t about the money, and sometimes it ain’t about the glory,” croons Behrens on Ghostland’s latest album. The money, the fame, the adulation - it’s sexy, it’s warm, it’s comfortable, but is it real? It’s like this person coming out of the incubator - the whole Neo being released from the Matrix-type thing.”Īnd whether or not you ascribe to Bostrom, or for that matter Elon Musk’s musings about our one-in-billions chance of living in ‘base reality,’ one could easily envision the music industry as feeling very much like a fabricated existence.
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“You’re catching me at this interesting spot of coming out of a dark point and that’s kind of where See You Later Simulator is coming from. “That’s where you’re catching me,” Aaron Behrens told The Marquee in a recent interview. And that may be why Ghostland Observatory has been largely absent from the music scene for almost a decade. Today, technological obsessions shape our worldview in almost every way, but sometimes we need a reminder to take a step back and disconnect from the mainframe. When the modern Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed the ‘Simulation Hypothesis’ it struck a chord in the minds of our silicon-valued society. Ghostland Observatory return with See You Later Simulator
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