natural incapactity, by relay for death

natural incapactity

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relay for death are the twin sisters rachal and roxann spikula, whose noise mantras transcribe the harsh realities of urban blight that complicate and threaten their own survival. it was in the context of two month medical study that the spikulas composed their debut album in 2009, amplifying the emptiness of hospital rooms into a ghastly pall worthy of the classic works by maurizio bianchi. natural incapacity sprouts from a similar research and development, manifesting from the sonic pollution that proliferates in their current residence of richmond, california. clocking in at well over two hours, natural incapacity was composed as a seamless, glacial accretion of locomotive grind, subharmonic environmental rumble, nocturnal street sweeping, and the quavering hum of toxic chemicals perpetually leached into the water table. by design, natural incapacity’s oil-stained drone is completely relentless, implying neither beginning nor end to this cycle of contamination. relay for death’s industrial meditation recognizes abjection, horror, and defeat as the prevalent conditions to existence. even as a declared rejection to those conditions, natural incapacity is engulfed in a bleak nihilism constantly churning back upon itself. grizzled antecedents can be found in the apocalyptic works of maurizio bianchi, kevin drumm’s imperial distortion, and organum’s vacant lights.

while intended to be a seamless document, natural incapacity is split over two cds / two download files as bandcamp cannot support an audio file over two hours long. the physical edition features hand-rusted metal covers by the noted corrosion artist jim haynes and is strictly limited to 150 copies. a download of the seamless composition will be available only through the purchase of the physical version.

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released December 2, 2016

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helen scarsdale California

post-industrial research, surrealist collage, refined minimalism, caustic electro-acoustics, sublimated dream-pop, obfuscated field recordings, recombinant noise, existential vacancy, and then some.

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