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ZA/UM’s cult-hit detective RPG,
Disco Elysium, is set in a city where every political ideology has failed. As your player character an alcoholic cop in flared trousers and a tie resembling the intestines of a dead animal roams Martinaise hunting for clues and discarded bottles to deposit, the legacy of these failures is painted into every one of the game’s pre-rendered dollhouse environments. There’s the cracked tilework built under the King’s wasteful regime; the bullet holes in the walls along which the Communists were lined up; the King’s statue restored by a bunch of art-school “young ironists” as part of an aborted attempt at gentrifying the area into a resort.
11.04.21 | Alex Sievers
I’ll address this right now: ‘The Black Parade’ ain’t here. There’s just no need for it to be. We all know that album, we all know My Chemical Romance, we’re all familiar with those songs. It’s a given! To the point that allowing ‘The Black Parade’ a spot here – as much as I love it and MCR – would yank the limelight away from other stellar releases from this year. So with that little formality out the way, let’s jump into our time machines and shoot back 15 years for 15 great albums that helped to truly define ’06.