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Sacred Bones
Apr 04, 2017 Web Exclusive
Herein, Margaret Chardiet celebrates a decade of her solo noise/industrial project’s noxious squall with an album that seeks to facilitate the listener’s mind transcending their physical body. A lofty goal for a harsh industrial record, or any kind of record for that matter, but if there are sounds which can create the necessary trance states to accomplish that goal, they’re probably in here. Her synths and electronics create a formidable miasma, but as with previous work, her voice does much of the heavy lifting to make the music distinctive; it’s an instrument whose use Chardiet continues to refine in increasingly musical, but no less terrifying, ways. This is also the most varied Pharmakon album to date, bringing insistent rhythms closer to the fore more than on previous efforts. Not for the faint of heart, but maybe you’re looking to leave your heart with the rest of your body, anyway. (www.pharmakon.bandcamp.com)
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