American boyhood can resemble a long induction into somebody else’s war. Strength is measured by the ability to make others submit; tenderness is seen as a liability; and young men learn to police one another before an employer, institution, or army ever needs to intervene. On “Victory in Death,” avant-garde darkwave project Mellow Code follows those instructions toward their brutal conclusion, confronting a model of masculinity designed to turn…
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