On November 09, 2016, I mauled enough dumplings to stun a yak and trundled my hollowed-out psyche two miles west to watch Nicolas Jaar tour one of the greatest electronic works of the past 25 years. Released between the Brexit vote and our election of a fascist, Sirens is loosely about Jaar’s growing up in a Chilean family during the Pinochet dictatorship, but it is more accurately about the systems and patterns that result in dictatorships, looking at the system from a higher level than we usually see in ragestroking, reactionary political music. Its emotional & philosophical centerpiece, “No”, is about a vote to keep Pinochet in power; in order to kick him out & embrace the future, Chileans must counterintuitively vote “no.” The show, sold out, was approximately what we all deserved after what all happened the day before.