Story Pile: I Have A Special Plan For This World, by Current 93

Current 93 are a British neofolk music group founded in 1982, which, as with almost any group of artists that have been around since before the public release of the internet, have done and tried a lot of things. Even calling them a neofolk group is eliding an asterisk, where yeah, they’re a neofolk band now, but they’ve also been an electronica group and an industrial group, and if you asked me to explain those terms, you’d get an inadequate, vague gesture.

In the year 2000, they released a song called I Have A Special Plan For This World, and it’s 22 minutes long. Its album cover is strange in this sort of deliberately unaesthetic representation, obviously trying to look like itself but not trying to look like something you should want to pick up and look at.

Content Warning: I Have A Special Plan For This World is an eerie, probably-horror song-poem that sounds a lot like someone’s brain disintegrating while they explain some upsetting ideas with a looming sense of threat. There isn’t a lot of grisly, upseting imagery or anything, but this is a piece that feels to me as if it was designed to unsettle.

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