{"id":58075,"date":"2016-11-10T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=58075"},"modified":"2016-11-09T12:56:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T18:56:53","slug":"review-cara-neir-perpetual-despair-is-the-human-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/review-cara-neir-perpetual-despair-is-the-human-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Cara Neir — Perpetual Despair is the Human Condition<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was not going to write about this album, in part because I’ve already written about Cara Neir<\/b> this year<\/a>. Shit, I wasn’t even going to listen<\/i> to this. A few weeks ago I went on record saying my 2016 dance card was full and there was no room left in my life for this record. That is how I felt at the time: burnt out on new music. And then some asshole Time-Traveling Lizard dropped Perpetual Despair is the Human Condition<\/i> in my lap and I listened to it and I knew instantly the magnitude of my mistake.<\/p>\n

I was wrong and I apologize. To the members of Cara Neir. To their friends and families. To Jom Pooterson. And to all of you.<\/p>\n

Let’s be blunt and work backward from there: In the current parlance of internet music fans, this album is fire<\/span>. It’s a box of double-edged knives with no handles. It’s a bleeding heart nailed to a dead tree. It’s that pit of hypodermic needles that chick jumped into<\/a> in the second installment of the dreadful Saw<\/em> franchise. And in case you haven’t stabbed play on the sample below, it is progressive-minded black metal performed at breakneck blast and d-beat speeds. From start to finish the intensity skirts the critical limit\u2014and never at the expense of detailed songwriting or an overarching sense of purpose.<\/p>\n

What is going to happen to you when you press play? Will you fall into a pit of needles? Metaphorically, it is highly likely. You will feel the sting and the burn. But the sting and the burn will feel righteous and you will raise a fist in the air and bang your head and scream along and if you happen to be driving while listening you just might stomp on the accelerator and flip your car over the median\u00a0and into oncoming traffic\u2014just to achieve sweet release. If any of this happens, do not be alarmed.<\/p>\n