Children of Broken Code
Children of Broken Code
Serialising the album Pretentious Incongruity by Key 13 (@keefmarshall)
Pretentious Incongruity: 2020-2024 is a retrospective compilation looking back at some key milestones in the first five years of Key 13 as a recording identity.
Track 15
One of only two tracks on here that feature me singing, with my real voice. I included this as something a bit different, one of my more recent creations. I think it stands up pretty well.
The intermediate refrain on piano, that is repeated with heavy distortion towards the end, is a 12-tone note sequence. The rest of the track is written in a Phrygian Dominant scale – Phrygian mode with a major third.
“Fault 72” is a reference to a real life issue some relatives were having with their central heating boiler! It was going to be the track title, but I think the current one works better. Our future descendents will definitely blame us for the mess, whether it’s this cyberpunk dystopia or something even worse.
Influences: Gary Numan, in his later/current more industrial period.
– From Key13’s Pretentious Incongruity: Track Notes
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Lyrics
We are the remnants of your future days
Fractured residue
Welcome to the malfunction phase
Fault 7-2
Souls of metal, no conscience mode
Upgrades long overdue
We are the children of broken code
And we blame you
We are the children of broken code
And we blame you.
