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Purchase: http://theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/htrk-work-work-work
Release Info: http://ghostly.com/releases/work-work-work

HTRK’s Ghostly International debut 'Work (work, work)' is a flat-lined study of desire and submission, sentimentality and dysphoria. The London by way of Berlin and Melbourne art-rock duo (pronounced “Hate Rock”) finished the album’s production while grieving the sudden loss of founding member and bassist Sean Stewart to suicide in March ‘10. And while that tragedy has certainly found its way into the music’s bottomless sonic void, 'Work (work, work),' written from 2006-10 in Berlin and London, is about much more than abject darkness. Much, much more.
On 'Work (work, work)', HTRK craft a stark soundscape: achingly slow 808 beats, eerie synth arpeggios, vaporous guitar noise, and Jonnine Standish’s androgynous, detached vocals, dripping with reverb. And yet it’s the careful way the pair combine those elements—organizing and juxtaposing them with a minimalist’s attention to detail—that makes their music so emotionally devastating. “Ice Eyes Eis” starts things off by enveloping you in a slippery erotic zone, in which a German sex TV babe splays herself over a molasses-slow beat and clouds of dry-ice atmosphere. The creeping “Eat Yr Heart” embodies HTRK’s touch with sonic unease, showcasing a high-pitched horror-movie synth obligato that flits like a swarm of bats around Standish’s declarations of longing (“glucose, cellulose, saccharine”/ “you fill me up then make me starve, eat yr heart”). Late-album highlight “Love Triangle” takes a more sensuous tone, describing a perfect three-person encounter (“he on she on me / she on me on he / bermuda bermuda bermuda”) over textured guitar swirls and a languorous drum-machine march.
For all of Work (work, work)’s more abrasive elements, its sense of bleakness and mourning, one finds a surprisingly romantic core. A sense of doomed melancholy, a heavy heart, lives below the layers of a murky and heavy space. HTRK’s remaining members, Jonnine Standish and guitarist Nigel Yang, sweeten their heavier sonic reference points (Pan Sonic, Suicide, et al) into songs of love and lust, creating an imaginary party record for the end of time. And what of all that “work”? In the end, HTRK’s album title seems both to refer to the tireless craft that went into its creation, as well as Standish and Yang’s endless quest to extract beauty from melancholy.


HTRK - Eat Yr Heart

FUSE041 Silbad - Sincerity

Bandcamp: https://fuselab.bandcamp.com/album/sincerity
Stream: https://band.link/silbadsincerity

Silbad is the artist from St. Petersburg, he has been making music for over 10 years.
He focuses on making minimalistic, but at the same time detailed sound, to create a musical universe of many small references and details, recycled and buried among other sounds. 

Silbad said:
"What I love most is when music takes you somewhere far away, creates a unique mood where it seems as if time doesn't exist."

The album was recorded in the fall and winter of 2023/24, and contains both very recent and fading memories that over time begin to feel like dreams. 

"Personally, my music helps me both not to forget and to forget at the same time.
The last phrase of course probably sounds too pathetic, but I meant that over the years my own dreams and motifs from my youth are erased, and only a few things like music help me to remember them. And forgetting = dissolving into creativity."

Links:
Silbad
https://soundcloud.com/silbad
https://silbad.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/shapeless.dreams
Fuselab
https://soundcloud.com/fuselab
https://fuselab.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/fuselabrecords

Sincerity

bandcamp

Silbad - Aspiration

Fly Trap [MS-016]

sevrd, alive- your eyes (ceqeo)

idk practice ig. i fucking hate being sad.
just cleaned my room and thought id upload as well, might come back to this and work on the melody and drums more. for now just have it as it is, slowed and reverb at the end lmao

i hate being stuck

DIVINE

Nose Candy

Tired Sun

Night Perfume

'Let me breath' is a crushing encounter for the prosaic verses of @daemondaemon, as his spoken word opens up a sonic void with overdrive motives on @therealendgame's production.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/daemon-endgame-let-me-breathe

Premiere: DÆMON & ENDGAME - Let Me Breathe

‘PRSNT’ is a unique global artistic project combining the input of artists across the worlds of music, video and written word which acts as a statement on how we, as consumers, engage with music in the 21st century. Vital electronic musicians including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Lafawndah, Lyra Pramuk, Lucrecia Dalt and Visible Cloaks have each contributed untitled tracks, which are approximately 32 seconds long.	
 	
The concept was devised by Created By Us and the Barcelona-based label Modern Obscure Music. They read a study which identified that the overwhelming volume of instantly accessible information online is shortening attention spans and altering how audiences engage with music digitally. Their curiosity about the state of online consumption developed further on discovering that around a third of all listeners using digital platforms skip to the next track, within the first 30 seconds of playing.  
 
Each musician was given a fascinating challenge to create engaging compositions with real artistic merit, inside the confines of this shortened span. Akin to Brian Eno’s famous Windows 95 start-up music, the time constraints are crucial, and the compositions are deceptively complex and more substantial than expectations of their nano nature would suggest.
 
‘PRSNT’ acts as a critique of flighty feed culture, but is simultaneously constructive, providing something which is either proposed solution, or “if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em” resignation. Every artist has interpreted the brief differently, resulting in an intriguing blueprint for the potential future of digital music. Could abbreviated micro compositions satisfy, inspire and nourish like their longer counterparts? They certainly take up much less of listeners’ busy lives, which are often spent tackling ever-increasing workloads.

Mastered by Rashad Becker

PRSNT

Lifeworld

Visible Cloaks - Lifeworld [PRSNT PREMIERE]

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https://worldwidewings.bandcamp.com

DIVINE

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