Cyborg9k is one of my favorite music artists. Everytime they release a new album, it's during a period I really need the type of music they're writing. In the Hauchuca Aerostat album Whipper and Hornet, the main theme of the lyrics is life moving on and your childhood/teen years is far behind you. I was 18 when this album released and had just moved out of my home town. I was lost, confused, unsure about what I was supposed to do with the rest of my life, and the songs of this album helped me through it. I particularly liked the stretch of the first four songs. My favorite being Endless Vacation, Digital Dreams, and It's Never Really Over. It's Never Really Over reminded me I have so much time still left to live, and that I'll always have the memories of the friends and life I left in my old trailer on the beach. All that asside I really loved the sound of this album, akin to the digital video games of my teen years. When listening to anything by Cyborg9k I always think of the Scott Pilgram Video Game soundtrack.
What Did You Expect, the album that Cyborg released this year, came at a perfect time for me. I was depressed over the situation in the US right now, I was tired of my job and hearing voices and was needlessly paranoid. I could heavily relate to songs like Lurasidone and Archangel cuz of my mental state. I could understand the pain of the people in your home wanting you to be a certain way, unable to tell reality apart, wanting pills to be the magically cure all. Other songs like Kalashnikov and Bluecheck being about the depression political climate transgender and the lower class have to live with. Elon, Trump, and the far right turned the US again transgenders and immigration, showing the US's making steps towards a racist and bigoted future, akin to fascism. The rest of the album is about the artist's personal previous romantic relationship and how horrible it was for them. Though I do not relate fully to the contents of these songs, I can feel the heartbreak and emotion in them. My favorite songs are always ones that have the artist sing about heartbreak and abusive mistreatment and moving on past it. My favorite songs in this album have been My Precious Time, Sidearm and Compass. and Luradidone, but in general I love the whole album dearly.
Also something awesome, one of my friends made art for the single release of Infinity Bike. So awesome! Here's his website!
