Name: Reducing the Patient by Physic [2017 remaster]
Duration: P00H07M15S
Description: Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s essay “Madness, Badness, Sadness,” which looks at the cruel practices unleashed upon the mentally ill in the Western world and the hypocrisy of supposedly civilized societies engaging in such barbarism. The title refers to the Victorian-era practice of bleeding out psychotic patients until they no longer pose any physical threat.

Reducing the Patient by Physic [2017 remaster]

from Ends by The Ludvico Treatment

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Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s essay “Madness, Badness, Sadness,” which looks at the cruel practices unleashed upon the mentally ill in the Western world and the hypocrisy of supposedly civilized societies engaging in such barbarism. The title refers to the Victorian-era practice of bleeding out psychotic patients until they no longer pose any physical threat.

lyrics

Though our methods seem callous and vile
Such delusions all come with their cost
No pity in chain-links, no empathic scalpel divides
The pure mind is gracious, the tortured man shackled now lost

For our subjects all substance-controlled
Impositions in solitary holes
Lessen the weight of our culture, asylum-abode
Reckless, despondent all hopeless outside of our homes

Send the bastards and ones you’d disown
Modern physical truths balance mind
Though these faces resemble our daughters
Social graces bring solace in kind

Lessen the weight of our culture, asylum-abode
Reckless, despondent, all hopeless outside of our homes
Won’t you hear me now, hear me as your own?

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from Ends, released August 15, 2017
Adam Veenendaal: Vocals and instruments

Produced by Adam Veenendaal

Music and lyrics written by Adam Veenendaal and Alex Kennard

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The Ludvico Treatment Toronto, Ontario

Melody & noise from the unbridled Canadian wilderness.

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Ends

Aug 2017
Uncollected

Feb 2013
Boy Gangsters

Jul 2012
Live At Sanctuary, Vancouver

Dec 2011
Politeia

Jul 2011
Romanticism

Jun 2007

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