For me "Raw" sounds like the soundtrack for a movie I'm uncertain whether I'm eager to see it or not. I would like to see it cos this music produces the imagery of a certain kind in my brain. The spaces, the objects, and everything what's going on in there.
I would not like to see it because it's gonna be an 'abandon all hope' dystopian sci-fi where the human beings are totally stripped off their humanity being converted into living mechanisms obliged to make some senseless dreary life-sucking work. A terrifying sight. Unfortunately, it's as uncomfortable as our world is.
Amongst the DOM's vast back catalogue one album stands out in terms of disquietude it creates. It's the pandemic "Emergency" which I recall to be almost physically painful to listen to. Painful but some kind of cleansing. As compared to it "Raw" is way more acceptable for an unprepared listener but it makes the same feeling of total omnipresent discomfort.
Our world is not ok. Accepting this one might choose the escapist vision and all those "we are happy people on the top of the world" chantings of Coldplay just to soothe the ache. Or you may choose to be real.
