With Imaginary Enemies, Curse Mackey unveils his most intense and intimate album to date. A bleak, beautiful meditation on paranoia, grief, and the ghosts we conjure from within. A darkwave exorcism for the fractured self, it resonates with fans of Clan of Xymox, HEALTH, Skinny Puppy, Gary Numan, Twin Tribes, Coil, and Front 242.
Blending the raw aggression of early Wax Trax, 90s-inspired industrial with cinematic darkwave atmospheres and hard-earned poetic insight, the album unfolds across gritty city streets and the shadowed corners of the mind, where desire blurs with danger and monsters move in silence.
Curse channels the ghosts of self-destruction, martyrdom, and revelation across tracks like Doomed for Monday, Time Comes Clean, and The Kindness of Serpents.
His voice drips with urgency, steeped in internal collapse and spiritual trespass. From the grief-stricken ache of Blood Like Love to the nocturnal paranoia of lead single Vertigo Ego which asks, “What monsters come after you, when you are alone in the dark?”
The album explores the liminal space between identity and illusion. A darkwave exorcism for the fractured self, it resonates with fans of Clan of Xymox, HEALTH, Skinny Puppy, Gary Numan, Twin Tribes, Coil, and Front 242. A masterwork of modern darkwave from one of the industrial underground’s most evocative voices.