Often, when you read an artist or act is ‘impossible’ or ‘difficult’ to categorise, it’s usually because the person attempting to categorise them is looking to conveniently align them to a specific, established genre, or liken them to another act or artist by way of a shortcut.
Diminished Men, it would seem, have no wish to confirm to anything or subscribe to any genre or style, or even to align themselves with any one mindset.
As I immerse, and slowly lose myself, in their strange, cinematic world, I find myself gazing out into strange sonic vistas while contemplating the significance and broader implications of their name. As William S. Burroughs said, ‘no man is worth his salt who doesn’t labour to make himself obsolete.’ And so Burroughs, through the use of cut-ups, allowed the voices of others to channel through him, and thus enabled, nay, facilitated, his authorial power to become diminished, his own voice replaced by those of others, living and dead.
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On ‘Vision In Crime’, Diminished Men effectively present the process of their own diminishment. This is a work which refracts myriad elements of hard-boiled cinema and classic instrumental music to forge something utterly mindblowing in its otherness.
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