Lychgate "The Contagion in Nine Steps" LP

The Contagion in Nine Steps is themed on the idea of crowd psychology and behaviour from a philosophical and historical point of view. The theme was inspired by the idea of using swarm behaviour in micro-machines in stanisław lem’s book ‘The Invincible’ as an analogy for societal evolution and crowd behaviour. In the said novel the micro-machine’s powerful organisation en masse has triumphed over humans, but not led to intellectual superiority. Pertaining to the album’s title, “The Contagion” is namely any idea that infects a crowd and spreads throughout it like a virus, leading it to its demise. Furthermore, the “Nine Steps” represent approximately nine stages in European societies, starting with Ancient Greece and ending with the present.

Released by Blood Music.