SLOWBURNBLUE
'Slowburnblue' v1.0 was released at the turn of the millennium, a dark bubbling gumbo of an album, NME called it "electronic soup". It was a hazy sprawl of disintegrating data and layers of opiate noise. It was caught somewhere between bedroom geekdom and the dancefloor. Music for wallfowers, anyone?This "Director's Cut' adds some of the original missing songs including the Porno Song Cycle, remasters, reduxes and remixes.
SHIVACROWBLACK
'Soulcoalblack' (now 'Shivacrowblack') holds murky stories of unborn mutant dreamers, A-bomb pariahs and dying hollywood tarzans, cursed guitars (and the riffs they play) and doomed rockstars, beautiful yet strangely detached vivisectionists, car-crash fetishists and predatory homophobic psycho truckers. and 'z', always 'z'. the viral cross-fertilisation of narrative is key here. just who (or what) the hell is 'z'?
'Shivacrowblack' (the downloadable deluxe incarnation) is a dark headfuck of an album, thematically and sonically. the soundtrack to the moral disintegration of a planet. a collapsing audio pallette that fuses glitchy industrial, krautrock, drunken orchestras, electronics, acoustica, broken ballads on broken pianos, psych-prog, fractured beats, bass and bad bad acid. not an easy ride. here, we are mainly off-road, on uncharted territory, and there be demons. described, by those in the know, as "sensuously disturbing (and, indeed, disturbingly sensual)" and "deliciously deranged". Sleep well, my lovelies.
- 'Doncopolitan' magazine
DEEPFLESHRED
'Deepfleshred' is an exclusive collection of weird warped - and extremely - wonky songs of love, loss and longing, previously polarised into two volumes (Venus + Mars) masculine and feminine. This is a collision of the planets containing multiple perspective narratives, deceptively dark and disturbing in subject matter. These are challenging themes, murder ballads, animal experiments into maternal deprivation, loss of innocence, grief. notably, the avant-pop of the tracks featuring Chinese noisenik Yikii Tong and the dark squelchscape of 'The History of Swaying' (co-written with Finnish slam-poet Hanna Yli-Tepsa), the sinewy trip hop of 'Harlow's Monkeys', and the gauzy electro-pop of 'Tactile' and 'Last Ghost Story'. We meet in the Venn intersection where sax, singing saws, theremins and prepared piano reside.Beamed down from Mars we have testosterone fuelled and depleted broken ballads, axe/sax-weilding jagged post-rock numbers and circuitbent nightmares. Sleep well.
