Discussion around the lost-and-then-refound album "apo111o" by towersss¹ is not focused on the songs but rather the bleak story it accidentally lets slip through its length. It is a discussion of family, of love and destruction and hate. Towersss clearly loves his family and seems to be quite dedicated to keeping his home well fed, hence the 15 year martian mining mission which he possibly recorded this on the way back from. At the same time, the absence of a father, son, & husband, from his home life leaves a sore red and pussy imprint on all involved, possibly even leading to the death of the narrator and all involved². The discussion is split between the belief that his absence caused the destruction of his family (and possibly their lives)³ and that he is telling the truth⁴, that his delusion is caused by the same pre-existing trauma but that it comes to a gruesome head due to the literal destruction and desolation of his home planet. Artists in the Blackpool Tower Demonstrations label (BTD), who graciously released this album, have created visuals that depict it as if it were true. Given BTD at one point met towersss this gives some credence to it being true, a real alternative universe apocalypse, but they are also entirely animated, with no images even existing of towersss, which lends itself to the story being at least caricatured if not entirely made up⁵. There is a good chance towersss was not literal, then, and that this is true in the early story as well, which is to say that the 15 year martian mining mission was also a metaphor of sorts, representing how his focus on work over family destroyed his family. Taking this to its moral conclusion then, I must ask what the rest of the metaphors, especially the more horror inclined ones, could stand for. There are forums in which to discuss this further online, but discussion seems to come to no definitive conclusion, either⁶.
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¹"apo111o", towersss and blcktau, 25/11/2022, bandcamp: https://blcktau.bandcamp.com/album/apo111o
apple: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/apo111o/1654955253?ls
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/11kMd8gnn91eBhrqmoYEa5?si=LVFJaMD1RQasc-REuOAHZg&utm_source=copy-link
²"Obituary of Timartin M Dartin", The Thimes, 01/01/2023
³see "Dystopia", Kim Dangler, 01/01/2023, for further discussion of the idea that the dystopia of apo111o is our world itself, as Dangler auspices
⁴see "Tragedy of Family", B. Slothernly, 20/12/2022, for the arguments towards the alternative universe created through changing paths at an early stage somewhere in VBIW°
⁵Music Videos: These are depictions by label artists of the rough outline of events
"pickUp777", towersss and Blackpool Tower Demonstrations artists, 18/11/2022: https://youtu.be/qPvOoXDPvHE
"r000utineMaintenance", towersss and Blackpool Tower Demonstrations artists, 11/11/2022: https://youtu.be/RnFlPAl3J1o
⁶"RateYourMusic" community based music score aggregate site: https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/blck%CF%84
