We Are Chaos: The Pale Horse Rides again (A short music review)
It's no wonder Manson is excited about his upcoming 2020 album . He's already called it a masterpiece and after hearing his single, 'We Are Chaos', I can believe that we really are looking at one. On first listen, I was pleasantly surprised to be greeted with the twanging of an acoustic guitar rather than the much heavier openings we have come to impute from Manson. He has delighted us in this way before, however. In 2019 he released a cover of Johnny Cash's folk ballad, 'God's Gonna Cut You Down', and before that, several acoustic tracks on The Pale Emperor (2015). He gave us then, a preview of a tone which reeks of the American Gothic -- a tone he's returning to now. There's a lot peering out at us in 'We Are Chaos'. From behind the cloistered bass drum, there are guitar slides, tinkling piano notes and a distorted voice message which swims straight out of 'The Telephone' (1990, The Beaver Meat). (Marilyn Manson and