Album titles can invert conventional meaning of ordinary substances

Evidence

All of which goes some way to explaining the title of the new album, which initially seems grossly inappropriate, since the songs’ souffle lightness could not be further from carnal carbohydrate stodge or beery bloating. But what if these substances are not “basic” and “life-giving” but the non-vital excess without which life would be nothing? What if “white bread” indicates not the normal and the nutritious but the synthetic, and “black” beer indicates not the homey and the heavy but the addictive? — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1190

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: The inversion of white/basic/nutritious versus black/synthetic/addictive is a striking critical reading move — could seed a piece of criticism or fiction about revaluing apparent emptiness as excess.