Wish Defense by FACS

 Inside every person burns an amoral flame of passion and desire, an irrational and therefore unknowable inferno of pure chaos that left uncontained would burn anyone to the ground. This suspicious, pessimistic misanthropic worldview animates Wish Defense by FACS, a grimy, industrial post punk record whose massive rhythm section and eerie guitars personify this inner demon. Abstract lyricism paints a ghastly image of absolute paranoia, a deep distrust of one’s inner motivations and the motivations of others, alienating the rational mind from the bleeding heart and placing all displays of passion under deep moral scrutiny. Of course, no degree of pessimistic stoicism can fully eliminate passion, as even the record’s dark, measured approach betrays burgeoning feelings of despair, depression, and desperation. In the end, no matter how much scrutiny we place on our deepest drives and desires, these deep-seeded sources of feeling will always reemerge, forcing us to make peace with them rather than vainly work to subsume them into the conscious mind.