Kowtow Popof: ‘Fibronostalgia’
What happens when rock ‘n’ roll gets lost in time?
Nostalgia is a longing for love and innocence lost. It is at once a comfort and a setting concrete, a refuge in the short run and a devastating trap in the long.
Fresh off a pair of feisty, pandemic albums (2020’s Action Figure and 2023’s A Punk’s Garden of Versus), Kowtow Popof returns to the fold with a cure for what he calls Fibronostalgia. If that sounds like a chronic condition, maybe it is. Fibronostalgia torments our muscles, tightens our joints, and paralyzes us in the shadows of our pasts.
From the call to arms of “Countdown in Bedlam” to the taking up of arms of “Ruin Everything” to the open arms of “People Are Alike All Over,” Popof shows that while the past never leaves us, the present never leaves us alone.
The good news is we’ve got some heady, bopping rock ‘n’ roll out today.
Forget nostalgia. Kowtow Popof is here for you right now.
About Mark DoyonI run Wampus, a creative development agency and label for emerging artists and authors. I make records as Arms of Kismet (and sometimes Waterslide), and wrote the novel 'Deep Fried.'
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