DRUGS & CAPITALISM by neon liberal

Dedicated in part to the late cultural theorist Mark "LIL FISH" Fisher, Drugs & Capitalism is Neon Liberal’s most volatile and visionary work yet — a fractured broadcast from the ruins of a world where vibes have replaced meaning and the future’s been cancelled.

Merging noisy, experimental hip-hop with shattered pop hooks, smoggy jazz textures, and a heavy dose of post-digital chaos, the album moves like a fever dream through the late capitalist psyche. LIL FISH sets the tone with a twitchy, haunted urgency, while HAIL CORPORATE (feat. LUDE JAW & BENOFFICIAL) takes dead-eyed corporate worship to absurdist extremes. SUBURBAN GANSTARS (feat. IQ) drips with irony and unease, and NEW NORMAL (feat. DAS BEHÄLTER) sounds like a job-center meeting melting in slow motion. The sprawling WHITE BLOOD CELLS bleeds into the title track, DRUGS & CAPITALISM (feat. JET PACK DOG), a bass-ridden elegy for hope under algorithmic rule.

Written in the shadow of Fisher’s hauntological thought, this album is both a eulogy and an exorcism — of futures we lost, of selves we can’t quite name, and of the system that numbs us into forgetting.

Written, produced, mixed and mastered by NEON LIBERAL aka Will Barnard.

Special thanks to Lude Jaw, Benofficial, MC IQ, Das Behälter, Jet Pack Dog, Palm Squirrel and Mathew Johnson.

Berlin based interdisciplinary artist.

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