The duo came up with a list of songs they wanted to cover and reached out to the eclectic range of artists on Drag City’s roster, sonic deconstructionists often springing from the fertile Chicago scene. The project had its genesis in spring 2020, when Drag City figureheads Bonnie Prince Billy and Bill Callahan, in conversation with the label, hatched an idea for a long-distance project. Lor's writing is so good i'm gonna go insane.īill Callahan and Bonnie Prince Billy - Blind Date Party (Drag City)īlind Date Party arrives like a breath of fresh air for listeners numbed by a pandemic that drags on, confounding expectations at every turn. The game draws heavy parallel between angela and the man she blames both for the pain she suffered and the pain she causes and by making a clean break through that parallel it just takes the concept of "redemption through death" and cuts it in half with a sledgehammer. by letting herself be vulnerable and relying on others, instead of pushing them away to shoulder on alone despite unbearable pain. It's a chain reaction of carmen's guilt and "redemption through death" leading to ayin's guilt and "redemption through death", leading to angela's guilt and eventual redemption by staying alive to face the fallout of her actions. instead, she would leave people behind to mourn all over again, as lor sees the lobcorp cast try to cope with the fallout of ayin's actions and subsequent death, as lobcorp sees ayin try to cope with the fallout of carmen's death. she has someone, friends, to pull her out, because if she really did die, she wouldn't really be breaking the cycle at all. I keep thinking how the main theme of lor is breaking the cycle of abuse and that this storyline culminates in angela realizing the suffering she wrought with her own hands, without the excuse of the script to hide behind, stepping into the seed of light to undo it all with the intent to leave her life there?Īnd that this is the exact same thing ayin did in lobcorp? stepping into the seed of light to atone for his sins with the intent to leave his life there?Įxcept, unlike ayin, angela isn't alone. Tl:dr lor's ending is the True Angela Redemption Arc and i love it so much