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- Friday, May 10th, 2024
New album from The Diogenes - Grunge punk politico débilos
The influence of '90s rock...
Influenced by '90s rock and the anti-conformism of ancient Greece's first punk, we distill humor, cynicism and a harsh critique of our decaying capitalist civilization into psycho-aristocratic grunge-rock-punk!

With this in mind, our album "Qui pourrait craindre le bien?" (Who could fear the good?) is made up of rock pieces built up here and there over the last 2 decades and which speak of our commitments, but also of our emotional state in this productivist and self-confessedly pragmatic world!
Pillow - Talks about mental disorders, isolation, neuro atypia, the poor treatment of these disorders by today's medicine and the difficulty of communicating this kind of suffering.
Gluttony - About the extraction of resources by sapiens and man's capacity to exterminate all living things in the process, in a vain attempt to wean himself off his personal greed and unreasonable quest for comfort. We're so powerful at Diogenes that we demystify infinite growth with a pop chorus... BIM
We hope to do more...
Religion Cathodique - is a critique of the dominant discourse conveyed by the mass media, which manufacture the propaganda and diktats of thought in our modern societies, like the church in its time, and which are obviously leading us year by year towards a new form of inquisition or other tyrannical and bloody drift inherited from the fermented paranoid madness (a hundred years old at least) now recycled in the minds of our frightened modern bourgeoisie.
Tiny Lighted Window - It's a song that pays homage to all that's beautiful - love, the arts, the living, the human being sometimes when he's not fighting for domination, and the need to look in that direction to avoid sinking and regain a little meaning.
The Lord - It's a critique of the privileges that society offers to males, a critique of aggression, of our organization's excessive tolerance of it, of its twisted use as a defense reflex, a critique of patriarchy, of advertising codes imposed as a model and which attempt to define what a man is supposed to be, although this certainly doesn't mean anything concrete, as the box is so wide and variable. Unfortunately, these codes and behaviors are all too often taken to heart by many tarts, who then seem to want to fit into these Hollywood molds. Unfortunately, they are also used as a basis for critical reflection by certain militant movements, but these essentialist codes need to be nuanced, as they compartmentalize more than they promote emancipation, They reduce to the stage of consumer, of caricature, a group of individuals made up of a panel of human psyches far too varied, complex and nuanced than those caricatures so often embodied with even more ridiculousness than some of the models in the action films from which they take their inspiration. This mad ambition to reduce the individual to a consumerist box totally devoid of meaning hardly opens up any debate, whatever the subject matter, and this reflex seems to stimulate compartmentalization and withdrawal rather than constructive exchange.
Néo-libéralise moi - This is a critique of the neo-liberal empire, which sees in all things/beings only its utility, its interest in the empire. Everything is a tool, and we must keep the infernal machine of capitalism running, crushing the proletariat, codifying all behavior to bend it to the laws of consumerism, monopolizing all resources and fantasizing the abstract right of ownership and the laws of competition as natural, inescapable absolutes. The power in the hands of the industrial world is not lacking in proof of its incompetence, so if we have, in spite of ourselves, bred a pragmatic spirit, it's time to use it to change masters, if not to abolish enslavement.
The Hole - It's a song about depression, the difficulty of talking about it around you, the relative "comfort" of not trying to extricate yourself from it, of atomizing your mind by injecting all forms of addictive poisons (including food and drugs) to divert your gaze, from the inordinate attraction to this abyss, and from the much-criticized help of our willpower, which can sometimes help to slacken the pull towards this abyss, when we manage to raise this willpower within ourselves and don't refrain from thinking that our social model is one of the biggest factors in depression, far more so than any toxicity you can imagine carrying inside you.
Beyond myself - It's about the mood swings of an ego educated in the age of ultra-technological and social neo-liberalism, which can only oscillate between an inordinate self-esteem that imagines itself to be genius in all circumstances (on even-numbered weeks) and one that plummets to its lowest ebb (on the following weeks), thinking itself incapable of the slightest movement. It's also about the need to use reason and moderation to avoid suffering too much from these forms of societal bipolarity.
Pink Song - It's a song about love, a tribute to the gentleness we maintain within ourselves despite the blows we receive and the social and societal violence we endure in this brutal world. It's an ode to the real strength (not the one imagined by masculinist advertisers) it takes to keep on loving, and finally it's a hostage-taking song by Math, who pays tribute to his beloved in the hope that the message might resonate more universally all the same.
Touche ma bite - It's also a love song... No, it's a satirical song that pokes fun at 90s/2000s pop punk, which had little to do with the original punk movement... The songs didn't have a political dimension, they were more about sexuality, without questioning male privilege, codes of domination or capitalism, which at the time seemed to be the soundtrack of liberalism rather than an itching powder, even of the gentlest... And that we were able to embody in spite of ourselves, brought up on DOP ads, American series and MTV... It's also a tribute to Diogenes of Synope, who wanted to live like an animal (i.e. as far away from social conventions as possible) and who (among other things) masturbated in the public square.
Sacrifice à Dieu - In a tone of derision and satyrdom, this is a critique of domination, an observation of the curse of power on mankind, this attraction that exists in sapiens, which takes up too much space in human organizations, preventing any form of justice or reason from emerging. In Diogenes' case, if we had to sacrifice something, it would rather be to Lucifer that we would address it, but as he is freer and less narrow-minded than God, he would certainly not expect any sacrifice, except probably that of privilege, which, in essence, remain unjust and already devilishly heavy to bear for those who bear the brunt of them, without the privileged ever feeling the discomfort of this other (so ill-defined), who may be looking for someone even lower down to shed this weight, so that the only thing trickling down in this model is the accursed habit of enthroning rather than dethroning, and uprooting any possibility of power of the one over the other. e.s over the others.
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