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Hemlock Ladder is Joshua Wells (Nerve, Correct Line, Priors) & Dave Coen (Sow Discord, Seeping, Hans Harms, Whitehorse, DIM). Artwork by Chris Simpson.

Physical release coming soon to RES.

Hemlock Ladder - Exactly the Right Amount of Violence

https://mutualism.uk/datastream-007

whipple:

forsure you can hold this 
cloud dipped in vernix

twixt tongue & incisor 
& bypass shrinkwrapped molar,

yolk-in-jawbreaker,
a pickline swimming 

breaststroke legato

Albeit inverted

i saw it & i knew: first off
swapped earrings for cathodes

& fennel for codeine

An oscilloscope held all my meat,
all my drool in its dustbag humming & hawing

Patron saint of barium & shortrib,

i know you’re out there 
though broken as belladonna teacup,
candyland of millet & lumen

since they couldn’t wrench the thing out in one piece

not even w a curette nor by human hand 

patron saint of marionette’s hand hidden
under tarp & soil in the last-ever circus on earth

u are a ventriloquist but I hear you
‘cuz tumors stop your throat forever

even after they’re gone. It’s an iconic feeling.

DATASTREAM 007 - Swan Meat - MY TUMOR IS MY GHOST PRODUCER - SHE LOVES PSYCHIC TOMS

Puce Mary — The Drought
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No. PAN 87
Release Date: 5 October 2018 
Pre-order album: bit.ly/2KGmn9f / bit.ly/2KGL7Ot

Building from a reputation of arresting live performances and critically acclaimed releases Puce Mary breaks new ground with The Drought, evolving from the tropes of industrial and power electronics to forge a complex story of adapting to new realities. Remnants of noise still exist, sustaining the penetrative viscerality offered on previous records, however The Drought demonstrates an intention to expand on the vocabulary of confrontational music and into a grander narrative defined by technical and emotional growth.

Bringing together introspective examination with literary frameworks by writers such as Charles Baudelaire and Jean Genet, Puce Mary’s compositions manifest an ongoing power struggle within the self towards preservation. The traumatised body serves as a dry landscape of which obscured memories and escape mechanisms fold reality into fiction, making sense of desire, loss and control. The Drought presents both danger and opportunity; through rebuilding a creative practice centred on first person narrative and a deliberate collage of field recordings and sound sources Puce Mary injects an acute urgency across the album seeking resilience.

“To Possess Is To Be In Control” makes use of lyrical repetition as an ambiguity of two selves, or a divided self, attempting to consume one another, while “Red Desert,” named after Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1964 film, portrays the individual subsumed by surrounding environmental forces. The seven-minute epic “The Size of Our Desires” acts as the emotional tipping point of the record; amongst the ominous drone and dense feedback flutters almost-beatific melodies, while the lyrics reveal a romantic call to be swept up in the midst of an increasingly uninhabitable world.

Rather than escape, The Drought dramatises a metamorphosis in which vulnerability is confronted through regeneration. Noise and aggression no longer act as an affront to react against but part of a ‘corporeal architecture’ where space, harmony and lyricism surface from the harsh tropes of industrial music. The Drought chronologises a transformation through a psychological famine, new ways of coping akin to plant survival in a desert – to live without drying out.

The release is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring art by Torbjørn Rødland

@pucemary
p-a-n.org

The Drought

Puce Mary - The Size Of Our Desires (PAN 87)

A Fossil Begins To Bray

Shatter The Gangue Of Piety

TO PROTECT OURSELVES WE UNITE - ALL BENDERS SUPPOSED TO PLAY AT THE RELEASE PARTY IN ONE COMPILATION - THE MONEY GOES TO EACH ARTIST, SO WE MAY STRIVE <3 HOPE YOU ENJOY THE BEAUTIFUL PIECES EVERYONE CREATED, SOME MADE FOR THIS AND SOME OLD UNRELEASED <3 Drvgzila Herlander Swan Palace NESS Alada Stasya BLEID - cover art by Daniel Pereira

NESS - CNTHLD (prod. PHOEBE & Odete)

Insect and fluid electronics on the second EP from Melbourne’s Third Space. Six IDM-tinged forceful grooves, straddling the intersection of smoke-choked nightclubs and homebound speaker stacks.

‘Zones 1 Through To 4’: Chaotic modular workouts and uneasy time signatures meet drum ‘n bass. Swirling and hypnotic, catch your breath.

‘Six at 148’: Peak-time, neon-haze confusion with an oozing bassline. Third Space finds the perfect kick and adds four more.

Resonant experimentation, ringing ears and broken steel – uniquely honest, deliberate and effective.

Mastered by Joseph Buchan
Album Artwork by Hector Clark, Image Direction by Phoebe Pendergast
Oblique EP synopsis by Henry Rowe

Special thanks to HJR and EH

Hopefully This Python Script Cures My Headache

Third Space operates on stolen land. Sovereignty has never been ceded. 

Bookings: info@outhouse.au

dot points out now via Absorb
Scissor Kick via .jpeg Artefacts
27 03 21 via Nice Setting
Pattern of Spring PS006 via Pure Space

Performances:

Miscellania (live) - 7 12 24
Liquid Architecture at the Meat Market (live with Anthony Pateras) - 6 12 24
Omniversal Hum (DJ) - 29 11 24
Make It Up Club at Bar Open (live)- 26 11 24
Forestlimit Tokyo JPN (live) - 05 10 24
wwwb Shibuya Tokyo JPN (live) - 04 10 24
Room303 Radio Tokyo, JPN (DJ) - 03 10 24
The Lot Radio NYC, USA (hybrid) - 21 09 24
Le Sample Paris, FR (live) - 14 09 24
Bard’s Apothecary (live) - 13 07 24
General Merchant at Mothership Studios (live) - 03 05 24
Make It Up Club at Bar Open (live) - 28 11 23
Absurd Lustre at Arkaoda Berlin DE (live) - 1 1023
Nullform Recordings at Iklectik London GB (live) - 17 08 23
Worm Turns at Gariwerd National Park (hybrid) - 22 04 23
Omniversal Hum at Northcote Social Club (live), supporting Jasmine Guffond - 23 02 23
Make It Up Club at Bar Open (Knotting) - 14 02 23
Pure Space:: eclipse at Miscellania (b2b Tangerine) - 12 02 23
Scissor Kick LP Launch (Brisbane) (live) - 05 11 22
City of Melbourne Space Activation (hybrid) - 23 10 22
Landing Vol 2 (Sydney) (live) - 30 10 22
Portal at Sideway (Canberra) (live) -  07 10 22
Scissor Kick LP Launch at Brunswick Mechanics Institute (live) - 23 09 22
Pattern of Spring 12" launch at Phoenix Central Park (Eora / Syd) (Live) - 05 05 22
Absorbed at Miscellania (live) - 22 04 22
001 Pop Up at the Abbotsford Convent (Knotting and solo runway performance sound design) - 03 04 22
Pitch Music and Arts (DJ) - 12 03 22
Outhouse at The Oratory, Abbotsford Convent (Knotting) - 05 03 22
Spatialive at Magnet Studios (Knotting) - 24 02 22
Liquid Architecture x Melbourne Music Week: Ritual Community Music at Miscellania (Knotting) - 11 12 21 
Pipeline at Miscellania (live) - 02 12 21 
Pattern of Spring Launch at Colour (live) - 03 07 21 
Outhouse x MMW at The Curtin, supporting Jonnine and CS + Kreme (live) - 27 03 21
Pitch Music and Arts Festival (DJ) - 08 03 20
Absorb at Crazy Arms (live) - 29 02 20
SOI at Radar (live) - 09 02 20
Outhouse at Crazy Arms (live) - 12 10 19

contact.thirdspace [at] gmail.com