Musical energy can make cosmic despair feel exhilarating rather than draining

Evidence

What makes this exhilarating rather than emiserating is the necrotic urgency of the death-disco drum machine and Smith’s guitar riff, which blazes like a distress flare in light-polluted sky. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1066

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Feeling larger than the universe while longing for the future is inherently restless — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 894

Broader Connections

• Feeling larger than the universe while longing for the future is inherently restless #qualifies (0.72) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 894