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Everything you need to know about the grand concept behind Dvne’s new album

SO DVNE’S NEW ALBUM HAS GOT SOME PRETTY HEAVY-DUTY CONCEPT, RIGHT?

It is a bit, yes! Annoyingly for all us in The Humanist

Indeed it has. It’s set in the aftermath of a big battle between The Humanists and The Augmentists. “The Augmentists win and take people away to build a new civilisation; they take mankind towards their capital,” Victor explains. “Then they make them build these towers for them to live in.”

WELL… THAT’S A BIT MUCH, ISN’T IT?

camp, it gets worse. “Over generations, the society gets more divided, and the beings now known as Celestials are living in the clouds on top of them,” Victor says. “The towers represent the rise and golden era of this empire.”

THE PEOPLE BUILDING THOSE TOWERS CAN’T BE HAPPY WITH THAT!

Ah au contraire, mon ami! They start to believe they are doing the will of the gods and worship those above them. “They are slaves but they believe the myth,” says Victor.

WHY WOULD THEY THINK THAT?

Well, over time they start to believe that working on the towers is a rite of passage into the higher echelons of society. So they can transcend to become Celestials.

AND EVERYONE IS COOL WITH THIS, ARE THEY?

Nah, not everyone! There are a group of people who are outside of all of this, who are more interested in nature. We get to hear their perspective on the song Mleccha (‘Remove oneself / from synthetic light… into forested freedom’).

HOW DOES IT ALL END, THEN?

Well, little do those down at the bottom of the ladder realise, but the towers have begun to collapse and the Celestials have actually buggered off. They’ve used the land, destroyed it, and fucked off – the nerve of them! There is violence as everything crumbles, and nature reclaims the planet.

JESUS! SO, WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

We’ll let Victor answer that: “Well, the Earth goes in cycles, and it’s about that really. It’s really about a planet reconfiguring itself in a violent way.”