conditions of acrimony, by himukalt

conditions of acrimony

by himukalt

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albinobone If human experience was a sound, and that sound was a painting, it probably wouldn't sound like a 'Monet.' It would be this. Drained of superfluous hope, this is ugly and upsetting and somehow beautiful. The sound of human doubt, anxiety, lust and decay looking in the mirror.

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1.	completely 05:34	buy track
2.	this conflict 04:52	buy track
3.	without laughter 11:08	buy track
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5.	i started 09:00	buy track
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somewhere in the american southwest may lie a pile of fetid cassettes, the scope and breadth of which might very well match that of the experiments with tape and electronics from rozz williams and chuck collison. in her terse exchanges with us, she once alluded to a past set of recordings without divulging them; and so for now we have this prolonged electrical cramp that marks the first published recording of himukalt. the given name we know is ester kärkkäinen, and that's pretty much about her beyond the nevada return address. this enigma is fitting for her work. exhaustive, claustrophobic, and cryptic, these lacerated (de)compositions address collapsed psychological states that dislocate the body, the self, and the spirit into horror, fear, doubt, hostility. such have marked the acme for the most virulent strains of power electronics and industrial decay (e.g. puce mary, anenzephalia, maurizio bianchi, maria zerfall, etc.), and this -- hopefully the first of many transmissions from himukalt -- stands shoulder to shoulder next to those giants.

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released February 26, 2016

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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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