Strange Therapy proudly welcomes The Marquis with “End of the Line: Corroded and Broken” - a work of deconstruction and reassembling of music topoi.

Get navigated in a demented world where cutting riffs, hardcore vocals, monolithic marches battle in dystopian soundscapes. Looping rhythms, shilling effects, robust guitar sounds meet abrasive distortion and heavy-industrial innuendos. Take a seat for this apocalyptic spectacle and enjoy a venture into the unknown.

“Do not feed the control machine”

released November 24, 2021

Order cassette, VHS and/or digital here: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/end-of-the-line-corroded-and-broken
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Title: End of the Line: Corroded and Broken
Artist(s): @themarquisofficial
Label: Strange Therapy
Cat nr: ST014
Format: Cassette, VHS and digital
Release date: 24/11/2021
Mastering: Dadub Mastering

THE MARQUIS |  End of the Line: Corroded and Broken [clips]

Returning label noise assailants Tomohiko Sagae and Never Worse conspire together in this half-hour lasting production and process line of controlled machine violence.

Crushing and churning post-industrial schemes meet abrasive noisescapes, where rhythmic monstrosities usurp the dominion of our planet in an act of rusty robotic revenge. Screeching through different intensities and tensions. Presenting a fascinating yet frightful sonic world where man is obsolete and machines are dancing on our final rest places following static anti-melodies.

released March 29, 2022

Order cassette and/or digital here: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/tomohiko-sagae-x-never-worse
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Artist(s): @tomohikosagae and @never_worse 
Label: Strange Therapy
Cat nr: ST015
Format: Cassette and digital
Release date: 29/03/2022
Mastering: Dadub Mastering

Tomohiko Sagae x Never Worse [clips]

No words can describe how ecstatic and on the other claw sad it feels to announce that Iron Sight aka Isak Hansen returns on Strange Therapy for his third and last chapter in his sonic story: Tears of the Phoenix. 

Continuing his very personal brand of modern noise music, this chapter contains total annihilation, fragmented and broken imperfect glimpses of violated structures. Brutal vocals muse on post-modern social and human drama - reaching droning undertones and convoluted distortions in an experimental yet coherent path full of corrosive but engrossing elements of despair.

released May 15, 2022

Order vinyl, cassette and/or digital here: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/chapter-three-tears-of-the-phoenix
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Title: Chapter Three, Tears of the Phoenix
Artist(s): @isak-hansen-213823504
Label: Strange Therapy
Cat nr: ST016
Format: Vinyl, cassette and digital 
Release date: 15/05/2022
Mastering: Peter Peter

Iron Sight  | Chapter Three, Tears of the Phoenix [clips]

B2 track by @isak-hansen-213823504, taken of his closing album in his trilogy "Chapter Three, Tears of the Phoenix".
Order: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/chapter-three-tears-of-the-phoenix

Continuing his very personal brand of modern noise music, this chapter contains total annihilation, fragmented and broken imperfect glimpses of violated structures. Brutal vocals muse on post-modern social and human drama - reaching droning undertones and convoluted distortions in an experimental yet coherent path full of corrosive but engrossing elements of despair.
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Format: 12" vinyl, cassette and digital
Release date: 15/05/2022
Mastering: Peter Peter

B2 Iron Sight - A Kiss So Wet [ST016]

@Evitceles, the project of Etien Slavchev, is documenting the time of day where no light can catch us with his album ‘Infinite Night’. 

Rustling and drowning in distressing sentiment through dramatic scenarios in which particles of droning guitar, rhythmic noise and eerie atmospheres conjure an alternative endless time span. Within becomes without in a transformative experience using a diverse palette of pace and ambiances, confronting the listener amidst their own fears and touches of melancholy.

releases September 26, 2022

Pre-order cassette and/or digital here: strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-night
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Title: Infinite Night
Artist(s): Evitceles
Label: Strange Therapy
Cat nr: ST018
Format: Cassette and digital
Release date: 26/09/2022
Mastering: Dadub Studio

Infinite Night

PRE-ORDER

Evitceles | Infinite Night [clips]

@alexeyvolkovofficial questions what side is above through unchained painful rhythms and modernly packed 80’s industrial ethics with “Monotonic Impermanence”.

Masterly managing to fuse flesh-cutting percussion through meticulous soundscapes and robust chainsaw basslines. Up is down and down is up in these severe compositions where you can count on nothing but relentlessness. Authentically finished by two heavyweights by the name of Simon Crab / @crab (Bourbonese Qualk) and Slow White Fall / @oliverho13.

released December 12th, 2022

Order 12" cassette and/or digital here: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/monotonic-impermanence
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Title: Monotonic Impermanence
Artist(s): Alexey Volkov
Remixers: Simon Crab & Slow White Fall
Label: Strange Therapy
Cat nr: ST019
Format: 12", cassette and digital
Release date: 12/12/2022
Mastering: Dadub Studio

Alexey Volkov | Monotonic Impermanence [clips]

@donnaharingwey's second studio album. Dedicated to Mark Fisher and the world.

All the money incoming from digital sales and profits on the physical merch will go to dogsofportugal.com

released June 1st, 2023

Order cassette and/or digital here: https://donnaharingwey.bandcamp.com/album/inside-the-vampires-castle
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Title: Inside The Vampires Castle
Artist(s): Donna Haringwey
Label: Strange Therapy
Cat nr: ST020
Format: Cassette and digital
Release date: 01/06/2023
Mastering: Gianmaria Dell’Aera

ORDER

Donna Haringwey | Inside The Vampires Castle [clips]

Matriarchy Roots presents his debut album “The Merge”.

Picturing a portrait of a woman’s independence through noxious electronics.“The Merge” is balancing brutal beauty and confronting auras with fractured emotions while each track gives another perspective on eternal dilemmas. Who do you turn to and are you satisfied with your life?

released July 25, 2023

Order cassette and/or digital here: https://matriarchyroots.bandcamp.com/album/the-merge
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Title: The Merge
Artist(s): Matriarchy Roots // @restive_plaggona
Label: Strange Therapy
Cat nr: ST021
Format: Cassette, art booklet and digital
Release date: 25/07/2023
Mastering: Dadub Mastering

The Merge

Matriarchy Roots | The Merge [clips]

B3 track by JT Whitfield, taken off his EP 'Birth of Compulsion'
Order: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/birth-of-compulsion

With an impressive discography tucked beneath his arms, JT Whitfield debuts on Strange Therapy. Confronting the relentless grip of human obsession and the struggle against its uncontrollable nature with his EP 'Birth of Compulsion'.

Taking over with a chaotic medley of sonic debris and unstoppable violence, like in guise thoughts and behavior that hide somewhere while feeding on you and your neurons. At times, it maintains a steady pace, but mostly it kicks, claps and shoots in a disordered frenzy. Backed by sputtering and droning electronics that come and go at the speed of escalators rotating their axis.
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Format: Cassette and digital
Release date: 22/05/2024
Mastered by Daniele Antezza at Dadub Studio

B3. JT Whitfield - Dragged Violently

A2 by Santa Cecilia & Semionauta, taken off their EP 'Tell Me To Sin'
Order: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/tell-me-to-sin

‘Tell Me To Sin’, the debut collaboration between Santa Cecilia & Semionauta, unveils as an arresting record. This collection of introspective, yet visceral compositions opens a glimpse into the rich spectrum of their creative vision, offering a profound exploration of suffering, death, sexual energy, and the transcendence of pain ~
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Format: Cassette and digital
Release date: 19/08/2024
Mastered by Daniele Antezza at Dadub Studio

A2. Santa Cecilia & Semionauta - The Dream In Which I Am Not Bleeding

A4 by Death Disco, taken off their debut album 'Death Notes'
Order and listen to full album: https://deathdiscouk.bandcamp.com/album/death-notes

Together, @samuelkerridge and @maxim-barron conspire against the living with their electrifying new project, Death Disco. Drawing deeply from the rebellious roots of punk and the DIY ethos, the duo has crafted with their debut album ‘Death Notes’, a sense of urgency and authenticity. Samuel’s fierce vocal work and electronics gives the album an emotional depth that goes beyond its aggressive nature, while Maxim’s pulsating rhythms keeps cutting through the atmosphere with skin-stripping power.

Death Disco moves through different experiences and paces, carving out a unique norm in an equally unsettling and uncompromising sonic world.

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Released January 31, 2025.
Format: Cassette and digital, vinyl by Downwards
Mastered by Justin K. Broadrick

Death Notes

A4. Death Disco - Spiral

A2 by @Evitceles, taken off 'Cursed Radiance'.
Pre-order and listen to full album: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/cursed-radiance

2000's alt-metal inspiration and twisted turns making it probably the most unhinged on the album.

After “Infinite Night”, Evitceles emits a second output with “Cursed Radiance” on Strange Therapy. His signature emo-tinged melodies are consumed by possessed guitar riffs that surge with pulsing and toxic energy, crafting a sonic sci-fi thriller.

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Releases April 29, 2025.
Format: Cassette and digital.
Mastered by Hex Audio Lab

DIGI + TAPE

A2. Evitceles - Supernatural

B1 by @cecilia-lentini & @xsemionautax, taken off 'Trascendenze Artificiali: Act I'.
Pre-order, live performance video and listen to full album: https://santacecilia-semionauta.bandcamp.com/album/trascendenze-artificiali-act-i

Santa Cecilia & Semionauta are back on Strange Therapy with their follow-up record after last year’s arresting debut on the label, “Trascendenze Artificiali: Act I” is an ambitious and monumental transmedial art piece.

Composed during an intensive two weeks of work, “Trascendenze Artificiali: Act I” is the result of the homonym site-specific durational performance, first presented by the duo at Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence for Fabbrica Europa Festival 2023 and further developed during an Art Residency at Nub Project Space, Pistoia. Developed by Santa Cecilia & Semionauta, the album reworks and extends the sonic material from the original performance, crafting an immersive auditory landscape that exists both as a standalone work and as an echo of the live experience.

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Releases June 3rd, 2025.
Format: Vinyl + booklet and digital.

Santa Cecilia & Semionauta - Madre for Voice and Harmonium (Live)

Order digital and cassette here: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/deba-b-ch

It's time for your next treatment. The latest strange therapy session, led by Tomohiko Sagae, guarantees to break through your blood-brain barrier immediately after entering your ears. His Deba Bōchō EP is a brain damaging mind cracker, packed with five tremendous tracks. 

DB#1 kicks off the session with pulverizing power. Beams of nerve wrecking noise crash into you. Grinding and screeching, slowly flowing up and down, this one clears your head of every last bit of clarity and sanity. DB#2 marches onwards with mechanical mayhem. The steam-powered mechanism propels itself with distortion. Get rolled over and beaten down by a gabber'esque flurry of punching and pounding, crushing all matter it comes across.  Operant re-mixed DB#2 into an evenly intriguing piece. The steam makes place for electricity. Twisted vocals like ghosts stuck in the circuitry peek above the static-drenched, rhythmic layers. It keeps on kicking, surging with low-end energy.

DB#3 hits harder than the heaviest machinery. A distortion-tipped drill digs deeper and deeper, eradicating everything in its path. Metallic hammering and system shattering sounds lay bare the core of crude craftsmanship. Stave's remix of DB#3 works like a tension building sharp-shooter. Stripped down of excess energy, it stutters onward, grabbing you tight in bursts of beats like a Gatling gun. 
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Title: Deba Bōchō
Artists: Tomohiko Sagae w/ Operant & Stave remixes
Label: Strange Therapy 
Cat nr: ST002
Format: digital + cassette 
Release date: 08/02/2018
Artwork: AVHK 
Mastering: Prodam Berlin

Tomohiko Sagae | Deba Bōchō w/Operant & Stave remixes [clips]

Order digital and cassette here: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/gutter

English aural terrorist Never Worse debuts on Strange Therapy with the 6-track cassette Gutter. Being true to its name, the work is a series of grinding assaults in which modern industrial/noise music with rhythmic tendencies becomes a template upon which brooding soundscapes are sculptured.

Bite The Concrete welcomes us with its haunting dark vibes, before it explodes in an industrial march made of mechanical movements and ominous lines. The rhythmic mantra uses pauses in order to convey a sense of dread. The listener will find himself crushed under the obsessive track. Dead Tooth presents grinding distortions and shrilling effects, evoking a factory-in-hell wherein an obscene ritual is consumed amidst the ever-functioning machines. An eerie atmosphere pervades the number, but the grittier side of the music is not forgotten. Cannibal is a dissonant tour de force with ritualistic noisescapes among which ghostly harsh vocals moves, preying on our fears. An ancient world made of prehistoric rules collides with the industrial setting, fusing past and present in an ominous mantra. 

The Title Track is a dark dimension with grim landscapes and underlined tension, an affair full of grit and epochal visions. It slowly adds the usual ritualistic elements in a well-crafted structure in which a suspended tension never find its climax, losing itself instead into nothingness.  Misery is a dark ambient voyage exploding with considerable disturbances and droning effects. A crawling movement guides us toward ominous moments of silence, ready to be assaulted by obsessive marches. The last track is a remix of Bite The Concrete by experimental artist Oil Thief, who reworks the track into a more experimental take on noise music, full of shrilling effects and compulsive stomping attacks. Rhythmic noise innuendos enrich the palette here used, offering a hypnotizing repetition. But it doesn't end here: the second half sees a different course dwelling in melancholic synth-lines, before returning to harsher territories.

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Title: Gutter
Artist(s): Never Worse
Remix(ers): Oil Thief
Label: Strange Therapy 
Cat nr: ST006
Format: digital + cassette 
Release date: 13/03/2019
Mastering: NIUMEN Studio

Gutter

Never Worse | Gutter w/Oil Thief remix [clips]

Order vinyl, cassette or digital here: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/changing-habits

After earlier appearances on the label, Dimitris Doukas, better known under his “Restive Plaggona” moniker, returns as his industrial oriented alias “Matriarchy Roots” on Strange Therapy. A highly engaging and confrontational project influenced by anti-patriarchy ideas and industrial music. “Changing Habits” will guide us among creepy atmospheres, sharp noises and destructive soundscapes made to question our way of thinking and our society's structures.

Where Is Your Toughness Now (No Forgiveness) finds the listener surrounded by a sense of dread and imminent doom, a collection of shrilling glimpses and brooding ambiances, distant broken memories made sound and sudden disturbances. At the end of the track added piano notes will increase the creepiness, preparing us for what will come next. More More More More (Courting Insanity) dwells in deep power electronics territory, and we will find ourselves in a bleak sea of chaos and madness. Obsessive rhythmic patterns and majestic effects impose a robust march, evoking a mechanical world inside our vicious mind. Just when you think this is it an eerie melody complete the scenario. Breasts In Sight (Demand A Choice) surprises with delicate ambient synth sounds and crystalline atmospheres in a droning course, reaching after a while a stomping movement with martial innuendos and distorted kick drums. The listener finds himself in a complex mix of emotions underlined by melancholic notes and ominous soundscapes, perhaps showing us personal facts from the author's life.  

Lifestyle (After The Rise Comes The Fall) is a rhythmic noise affair with cinematic elements and abrasive atmospheres with suspended parts and heavily manipulated vocals. A nightmarish voyage into anarchic assaults and controlled darkness reaching orchestral greatness. Monogamy Rules (Not Belonging To Anyone) uses suspense as a device showcasing broken sounds and shrilling lines, conjuring an alarming sonic world for us. The tension grows as the highly cinematic crescendo reaches an industrial climax with sci-fi qualities. Inner thoughts and ideas become a compulsive soundtrack to the demise of our preconceptions and in-built credos, leaving us with a sense of uneasiness.  The last track Masculine Norms (The Many Faces Of Manhood) drives the message home by the means of eerie soundscapes and cut-up sounds, giving us a crawling movement with sparse rhythms and soothing hidden melodies. Distant laments evoke a deeply disturbing portrait of struggle and mixed emotions.

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Title: Changing Habits
Artist(s): Matriarchy Roots
Label: Strange Therapy 
Cat nr: ST008
Format: Vinyl 12", cassette and digital
Release date: 26/09/2019
Mastering: NIUMEN Mastering

Changing Habits

Matriarchy Roots | Changing Habits [clips]

B1 track of "Changing Habits" by Matriarchy Roots. 
Order: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/changing-habits

Lifestyle (After The Rise Comes The Fall) is a rhythmic noise affair with cinematic elements and abrasive atmospheres with suspended parts and heavily manipulated vocals. A nightmarish voyage into anarchic assaults and controlled darkness reaching orchestral greatness.

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Format: Vinyl 12", cassette and digital
Release date: 26/09/2019
Mastering: NIUMEN Mastering

B1. Matriarchy Roots - Lifestyle (After The Rise Comes The Fall)[ST008]

Order double tape or digital here: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/chapter-two-the-broken-son

Iron Sight (Isak Hansen) returns on Strange Therapy with the second chapter of his sonic story: The Broken Son. The Danish artist continues his saga with a very narrative work exploring his inner world and memories throughout a double cassette release. Expect grim atmospheres and industrial-tinged scenarios, in which noisescapes and distorted vocals deliver a sincere and powerful performance enriched by crunching rhythms. But this not all: eerie and evocative ambiances, as well as surprising elements coming from distant sonic dimensions, shows us another side of his soul and art in a work full of pathos.    

A Losers Game welcomes us with sparse rhythms and noisy vortexes underlined by aggressive vocals and mysterious atmospheres. A sense of dread and tension grows around us giving aural form to inner turmoil and unspoken words. Orchestral synth-lines enrich the track with an elation doomed to be cut short by the main theme. The Loser starts as an ambient piece full of evocative sounds and soothing atmospheres, a different affair showcasing emotional takes and grandiose choirs and arches. Then, destructive kick drums and malevolent vocals perturb our peace once again without forfeiting the previous motif in a climaxing communion of opposites.          

This Is Not Your House/The Family rewards us with a beautiful mantra full of elegance and orchestral undertones. A hidden crescendo reaches desperate shouts among celestial soundscapes fusing ethereal movements and sharp noises – giving once again body to a mental dimension made of contrasting feelings. I Had A Name explores droning effects in a rare atmosphere rich in majestic awe, adding horn sounds and mechanical glimpses. We reach a compulsive march made of war drums and demonic vocals in a slow but crushing manifestation of rage. The perfect balance between elements conjure a unique feeling in the listener.     

So Wrong dwells in dark ambient paranoia before engaging us with broken rhythms and sulfurous passages, building a techno-gothic pastiche with organ sounds. Iron Sight's craft shows itself by the means of corrosive bass sounds and roaring vocals, picturing a scenario made of fractured tension. A suffering mind finds here is apt description thanks to a well thought songwriting, as well as a beautiful passage during the final part of the number. Devil's Deadly Stare surprises us with soulful choirs akin to ethereal music, upon which a clean voice sings for us a crooning piece. This is a moment of pure bliss and a demonstration of Isak's love for music in various forms. The listener will maybe think to retro and folk elements, but the track finds strength in its own peculiarity.      

Cell employs sharp noises in a hypnotizing theme with droning repetitions and sparse sound, a representation of brooding feelings reaching sudden hard and distorted beats. Hoarse vocals guide us in a hellish but crawling mantra made of restrained aggression. Something is following us in its sonic corridors, but we never find a real conclusion to the alarming chase – the episode ends abruptly with a sense of suspense and dreamlike stupor, Gods Eyes ends our journey with elegant arpeggios and the usual sparse electronic elements. But if we think this is just a peaceful outro, we have to think again: stomping distortions and ogre-like vocals have their say during the slow crescendo. There is no happy ending at the end of the album, a sorrowful desperation mixed with rage is the final statement of a work of sonic art.
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Title: Chapter Two, The Broken Son
Artist(s): Iron Sight
Label: Strange Therapy
Cat nr: ST009
Format: 2 x Cassette and digital
Release date: 05/12/2019
Mastering: NIUMEN Mastering

Chapter Two, The Broken Son

Iron Sight | Chapter Two, The Broken Son [clips]

D2 track of "Chapter Two, The Broken Son" by Iron Sight.
Order: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/chapter-two-the-broken-son

Gods Eyes ends the second chapter with elegant arpeggios and the usual sparse of electronic elements. But if we think this is just a peaceful outro, we have to think again: stomping distortions and ogre-like vocals have their say during the slow crescendo. There is no happy ending at the end of the album, a sorrowful desperation mixed with rage is the final statement of a work of sonic art. 

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Format: 2 x cassette (including an Iron Sight patch and lyrics booklet) and digital
Release date: 05/12/2019
Mastering: NIUMEN Mastering

D2. Iron Sight - Gods Eyes [ST009]

Order double tape or digital here: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/rough-treatments-part-2

Rough Treatments part 2 is the follow-up compilation (2xCS) of Strange Therapy’s first release. Eleven artists lead this cruel treatment session, for those whose minds wander off into the weird too far and too often.

Oil Thief gives you a cold welcome with “Ellowen Deeowen” - a dense sound evoking sharp soundscapes full of dread. JFK mesmerizes us with “The Body (1st Version)”, providing crunchy synth sounds and distortions underlined by steady rhythms. Unhuman explores broken noise mantras in “Purge Vacuum”, assaulting everybody with not user-friendly noisescapes. Tomohiko Sagae follows up with “Iron Oxide” and showcases his personal brand of mechanical rhythmic industrial with a stomping heart, checking if you are still alive. Never Worse presents “The Bleakness” with its cinematic factory-like sounds, evoking a world dominated by machines. Shrouds delivers a dense sonic experience in “Death, The Only Equalizer”, by employing loud loops and ritualistic motifs. Closing the first cassette is Mesmer Trial and his track “Fused”, which guides us in a dark experience dwelling in malevolent ambiances and droning passages.

The second cassette starts off with O/H, where they return to rhythmic-noise soundscapes with “Last Days”, which has an obsessive nature underlined by shrilling bass-lines. Donna Haringwey gives us “Invite”, an exercise in various rhythmic elements fused with punk-like vocals and riffing distortions. A Brutal Game follows suit with “Rehearsals 2018-2020” and its disquieting course based on reverbs and grinding sounds. Matriarchy Roots delivers the final treatment with “Stereotypes” and its almost celestial atmospheres ready to burst into slow and evocative passages with a dream-like quality, sending you to a last inward voyage of the soul.

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Title: Rough Treatments part 2
Artist(s): Oil Thief, JFK, Unhuman, Tomohiko Sagae, Never Worse, Shrouds, Mesmer Trial, O/H, Donna Haringwey, A Brutal Game and Matriarchy Roots.
Label: Strange Therapy
Cat nr: ST010
Format: 2 x Cassette and digital
Release date: 15/09/2020
Mastering: Dabub Mastering

Rough Treatments part 2

Various Artists | Rough Treatments part 2 [clips]

Order cassette or digital here: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/a-cast-of-memories

Strange Therapy presents a new name in its ever-growing roster: the French duo Second Spectre . A Cast of Memories is the name of their 8-track cassette here presented, a new chapter with a haunting rhythmic approach and filled with beautiful emotional cinematic soundscapes.

“Do You Believe In God” is a crawling and dark affair which starts with a subtle movement reaching harsher expression quite soon. An interplay between rhythmic mantras and ominous atmospheres guide us among a decadent reality, and during the second half of the track we collide into pure chaotic noise touching power electronics influences before returning to evocative effects. “Absolution” is like a horror movie made music, starting with droning lines and sudden bursts of hard-hitting blasts. A broken structure becomes the main movement, paused by eerie ambiances. Militant marches and technoid grimness become one in an obsessive mantra underlined by sacramental undertones. “Chaos Is A Ladder” has an almost urban feeling thanks to its breakbeat innuendos, but the listener will find himself among a city destroyed by an apocalyptic event. A cinematic atmosphere crafts a frantic chase with triumphal underlines, but the episode is ready to surprise us with modern, mechanical sounds. A fusion between epic and harsh aiming to conquer and transport us to a mental movie. “Death Note” slowly grows into a ritualistic evocation via sharp effects and industrial kicks, a serpentine pastiche no strange to subtle distortions and droning moments. Once again we find ourselves in a dark world conjured by aptly placed soundscapes and rhythmic patterns released at the right time, and the last part of the track sees a celestial climax. 

“Wisdom” reinstates the movie-like world of the album, starting with sombre patterns and then adding ominous vocal samples. After a while we find ourselves in a bombastic gallop which grows in intensity without really exploding. Instead, shrilling dissonances herald menacing orchestrations and interplays between broken rhythms. “Fear God” works like an interference made music, employing throbbing distortions and glorious, riffing lines in a fine example of obsessive rhythmic structures. Various tempos have their say during the course of the track, so the listener will find themself racing with their mind between sonic corridors. “Deadly Harvest” works as a study in suspense and tension, making its way with drone loops until it reaches more of a rhythmic momentum. A sort of dark d'n'bass movement takes its place in the composition, offering a very interesting moment for the listener. Heavily distorted vocals give an old-school feeling to the track, while eerie ambiances show themselves among the sounds. “Before It Disappears” ends our journey with a final cinematic statement made of dark orchestrations and sparse distortions. The drilling tension gives itself up in a robotic march empowered by almost melancholic lines. Once again Second Spectre shows their more emotional side to the listener. The mix between evoking stances and steady rhythmic loops is the perfect epitaph for this engaging work.
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Title: A Cast of Memories
Artist(s): @SecondSpectre
Label: Strange Therapy
Cat nr: ST011
Format: Cassette and digital
Release date: 02/12/2020
Mastering: Dadub Mastering

A Cast of Memories

Second Spectre | A Cast of Memories [clips]

A4 track by @SecondSpectre "Death Note", taken off their album called A Cast of Memories.
Order: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/a-cast-of-memories

“Death Note” slowly grows into a ritualistic evocation via sharp effects and industrial kicks, a serpentine pastiche no strange to subtle distortions and droning moments. Once again we find ourselves in a dark world conjured by aptly placed soundscapes and rhythmic patterns released at the right time, and the last part of the track sees a celestial climax.

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Format: Cassette and digital
Release date: 02/12/2020
Mastering: Dadub Mastering

A4 Second Spectre - Death Note [ST011]

Order cassette or digital here: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/venal

Donna Haringwey returns to Strange Therapy after his appearance on Rough Treatments Part 2 with a 7-track cassette titled ‘Venal’. Vocalisations of perpetually variant intensity careen through distorted soundscapes as syncopated rhythms slice through a heavy atmosphere of angst and unease that seethes with caustic vulnerability. ‘Venal’ is an undeniably modern re-envisioning of punk energy and cutting-edge sound design that pushes the boundaries of industrial and noise.

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Title: Venal
Artist(s): @donnaharingwey
Label: Strange Therapy
Cat nr: ST012
Format: Cassette and digital
Release date: 03/03/2021
Mastering: Dadub Mastering

Donna Haringwey | Venal [clips]

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