For a former folk devil, you could call that a homecoming. More wounded and emotionally raw than he’s ever been, We Are Chaos finds Marilyn Manson at a crossroad. Solve Coagula’s disco beat marks out a state of emotional exile – ‘ I’m not special, I’m just broken and I don’t want to be fixed’, and the closing Broken Needle is a valedictory, devastating epic, combining wracked candour - ‘ Are you alright?/’Cos I’m not OK’ with catharsis, the repeated ‘ I’ll never ever play you again’, once more carrying a charged double meaning. Keep My Head Together feels like the dawning of a new era, broader in scope than anything Manson has done to date, its lush, pearlescent guitar effervescing around a powder keg groove reaching psychologically fraught lift-off. Pay in full or in 4 interest-free installments for orders between with. Infinite Darkness is cinematic, night-stalking, late 80s-style industrial, but it’s the final stretch where We Are Chaos reveals its true depths, in all senses of the word, and reaches a zenith of defiant yet emotionally devastating self-reckoning. Half-Way & One Step Forward moves into more atmospheric territory, again channelling Bowie, but this time the creep-into-the shadows feel of Ashes To Ashes, as a piano line becomes the pulse for tense drama and a richly textured gravitas. We Are Chaos is a journey through different stages, though.
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