A music generation can elapse from rave euphoria into haunted deadbeat melancholy

Evidence

Burial’s London is a wounded city, populated by ecstasy casualties on day release from psychiatric units, disappointed lovers on night buses, parents who can’t quite bring themselves to sell their Rave 12 inches at a carboot sale, all of them with haunted looks on their faces, but also haunting their interpas-sively nihilist kids with the thought that things weren’t always like this. … The subdued bass on Burial is the spectral echo of a roar, burned-out cars remembering the noise they once made. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 215

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: The image of parents unable to sell their Rave 12-inches while their passively nihilist kids inherit a half-understood former joy is a potent seed for a generational story.
• XREF: connects to: Lost futures haunt a city more keenly than its past does — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 212; Contemporary electronic music has decelerated from rave’s rate of innovation — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1228; Dance music’s shift to fragile introspection marks a loss of collective cathartic release — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1243

Broader Connections

• Contemporary electronic music has decelerated from rave’s rate of innovation #complicates (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1228