Dystophilia: A fascination with the rate of societal decline. An unravelling of order as it careens into a dystopian AI future where melodies pile helter-skelter over phrases, genres melt seamlessly into one another, metal textures crash into chamber-like enclaves, forms teeter on the edge of collapse, violent rhythms transform into ghostly voices, and spiralling polyphonies end in jazz riffs or pop songs.

The music of this album from MC Maguire’s apocalyptic aural imagination, is poured into two giant electronic orchestral works. The first is Yummy World based on Justin Biebers’ Yummy which is sliced and diced through a world music/jazz appropriation machine. The other is Another Lucid Dream which mixes Juice Wrlds’ Lucid Dream with 16th C. passacaglias, headbanger Metal, and orchestral tsunamis. In other words, Dystophilia is often culturally inappropriate, dense, stacked in layers and best turned up to eleven.

Maguire has been dubbed “the most irritating and spellbinding composer since Philip Glass”, and “the most original Canadian composer since R. Murray Schafer.”