#vindicatrix

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The discovery of Miss Confederacy's secret identity led me to an article published in Richmond Magazine in September 2017, six weeks after white supremacists murdered a counterprotestor at a rally in Charlottesville, which had been organized to thwart an effort to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee. That was the moment Richmond's go-to source for dentist and restaurant recs felt the need to explain one of the city's less well known problematic confederate statues thus: "The Story of Vindicatrix: An allegorical symbol of the Confederacy, this statue is also somebody’s grandmother."

This new split from Antidröm and Vindicatrix is a keeper. The track here is one of my favorites from Antidröm, foregrounding percussion much more than his (excellent) full-length last year. There’s an instantly-recognizable crackling quality to Antidröm’s rhythms that adds an eerie tension to the synthesizer glow.