"DON'T BELIEVE ANYMORE" ~ Icehouse

The song "No Promises" can also be heard with a political double entendre. The West is slipping into technocratic totalitarianism, and our regimes are tightening population control measures. Australia, NZ, and Canada are heading in the same direction. Now that the hegemony of the petro-dollar is coming to an end, the naked truth is revealed: no national monnay (the US dollar) can serve as an international currency without destroying the domestic economy that backs it. The American thalassocracy served the interests of the ultra-wealthy. Its collapse reveals that the rest is in ruins. We have created financial value for the benefit of an exocracy by destroying our wealth. What we call "democracy" has always been a representative plutocracy. As long as the USSR still stood, we had an illusion of choice, but it was based on an external factor: the opposition between two totalitarisms, Soviet and American. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the illusion has been torn: the four powers in our regimes are not separated; they are intertwined. This totalitarian drift is inevitable but it will come to an end by itself, in a destructive manner. In the meantime, we must protect our humanity and prepare the building of a real democracy.

Iva Davies is a fucking good singer whose vocal creativity is damn underrated. His vocal style was incredibly versatile. He never ceased to explore different colours in his voice. Depending on the tracks, you'd swear for a few seconds he's Jim Kerr from Simple Minds, or Brian Ferry from Roxy Music, or David Sylvian from Japan, or Gary Numan, or Mike Scott from Waterboys, or John Lydon from PIL, or David Byrne from Talking Heads, and sometimes in the same song. It's just crazy.