Downcast angels figure exiled ravers longing for guardianship

Evidence

Angels, again. On Untrue, Burial’s Ravers appear as downcast angels, beings of light exiled into the dull weight of the worldly. Untrue is like German director Wim Wenders’s Wings Of Desire (1987) relocated to the UK: an audio vision of London as a city of betrayed and mutilated angels, their wings clipped. But angels also hover above the hopeless and the abandoned here. ‘My new tunes are about that,’ Burial agrees, ‘wanting an angel to be watching over you, when there’s nowhere to go and all you can do is sit in McDonalds late at night, not answering your phone.’ — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 225

Categorization

• XREF: The downcast-angel figure parallels chapter 12’s dub empty-floor melancholy and the haunted structure of family from chapter 6. — connects to: The desire to escape the day job expresses longing without a positive object — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 229
• FICTION: A city of clipped-wing angels watching over abandoned youth in late-night McDonalds is a strong image for a story or video.