Let’s talk about Doutoku Allergy from Scapegoat!
1. | 劇薬トランス (gekiyaku TRANCE) | - | - | - |
2. | 症状1 バックドロップ (shoujou 1 BACKDROP ) | Translation | Tradução | Kanji |
3. | 症状2 サディスティック/ラヴ (shoujou 2 SADISTIC/LOVE) | Translation | Tradução | Kanji |
4. | 症状3 模倣犯 (shoujou 3 mohouhan) | Translation | Tradução | Kanji |
5. | 症状4 狂想ネクロマンシー (shoujou 4 kyousou NECROMANCY) (MV) | Translation | Tradução | Kanji |
6. | レクイエム (REQUIEM) | - | - | - |
道徳アレルギー
(doutoku
allergy),
or “moral allergy" in English, is an EP with six tracks, being
two songs instrumentals. Looks like a big outflow, showing lots of
perspectives in which the composer felt frustrated or depressed, and
every song show us, in some moment, some type of hypocrisy.
So,
let’s go! The track one “gekiyaku
TRANCE”
or “drugs trance”, is basicly the introduction of the track two,
“shoujou
1: backdrop”
(Symptom
1: backdrop), which show us, apparently, their frustration as
musicians, even in the same song they showing that they like to do
what they do.
“I overheard that I’m not desired, but it will not make my heart stop beating.”
Shoujou 2: sadistic/love (Symptom 2: sadistic/love) and Shoujou 3: mohouhan (Symptom 3: copycat criminal) follow the same line of thinking, being a critic about our social paradigms, the first one talks about things that we talk even knowing that will hurt ourselves, or that we speak for some interest. And the second, with a most sad way than the previous one, about the lack of empathy we have for each other. Our daily hypocrisies.
The
fifth track from this single sounds like a big compiled from the
previous ones, as it’s MV, but with a conclusion tone. Talks about
every problem that are showed in the previous ones, giving as an
endpoint sell his soul to the devil, to get rid of all the bad
feelings. It is clear that it is an endpoint, when you see that the
sixth and last track of this single is called as “Requiem”,
which is instrumental, but you can listen, besides the piano, a voice
that talks indistinguishable words. The sound is stuffy, what can
illustrate that he is conscious inside his coffin, in his own funeral
mass.
To
finish, I wanted to leave a special look at the bass sounds on this
EP, which I found particularly good to hear.
What
do you think? Did you have a different interpretation of the songs?
Tell me in the comments!