why we love this

Each element breathes and finds its place in a tonal realm of delicate vibrations, subtle harmonics, and nuanced timbres. An exercise in dancing on a razor’s edge to find grace within chaos.

about the record

Angelo Harmsworth’s work deals resolutely in extremes, but this music is not concerned with presenting binary or dichotomous relationships so much as it is with reconciling disparate sensibilities and sounds. Layers of meticulously edited and sculpted tones swirl around one another, creating kaleidoscopic patterns and hallucinated choral motifs that seem to thrive on amplitude or the position of the listener’s head. There is a visceral physicality to this music that aligns it with some of the core tenets of harsh noise, even while its tonal and timbral choices recall those of ambient music. There is drama and implied narrative in these seven compositions that seethes and hums as if reveling in a sort of violent gracefulness.