Name: Two Shell - workOut! by Wind-Up Zenmaines
Duration: 3 min 52 s
Description: !?secretbox?!

Single by ML Buch released June 21, 2022
Written, produced and mixed by ML Buch
Mastered by Amir Shoat

Cover art by ML Buch

High speed calm air tonight

Ydegirl - Amber

I Remember Your Name ft. Amalcrossing

Square Heart

Mystery Boy (Vegyn Remix)

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Two Shell - workOut!

Blue Alibi

Blue Shit

Equal Amounts Afraid - LP

Written & Produced by LA Timpa

Core

A triad makes up the title of Soho Rezanejad’s second full-length LP, Honesty Without Compassion is Brutality, and throughout the album we witness the singer and composer arranging, wading into terrains of each piece of that title statement. Honesty, however, feels like the central ethos, what animates the album like a spirit or lit candle. We become acquainted with Rezanejad’s voice in its many registers, sometimes pitch-shifted down into an unwavering masculine mouthpiece, at other points so close-mic’d that we hear her voice cracking, and soaring in a song like “Love’s a Raging Prey”, as single vowels are stretched vast across chromatic steps. But it’s not just the singer’s voice considered as a channel for honesty – the album is populated with birdcall, stumbling trumpet lines, robotic preset voice mailbox messages, a toddler’s utterances. All vocality is taken into account, which is compassion enacted. Whereas Rezanejad’s last album Six Archetypes delved into the elemental characters constituting our psyche, this collection of songs rings with greater concern for the external world – a terrain defined by piles of obsolete telephones in a landfill just as much as waves falling upon primordial beaches. Imminent catastrophe is no stranger to us in 2019, and these compositions take all kinds of apocalypse into account – be it biblical, interpersonal, or an ever-unfolding result of the systemic degradation of our planet’s climate. The urgency of compassion underlies the album, almost a tonal foundation: as Rezanejad sings, “Animal, you do not fool me / I would remind you, that you’re no stranger than me”. In compassion’s absence, brutality is all we can expect, and we hear a number of sonic landscapes on the album that seem to peer, honestly, into a future of exterminated life and machinated waste. But as a call to arms, or a celebration of love’s unmistakable pulse, or an admission of terror, Rezanejad’s brutal honesty can also be heard as radical compassion.

- Nat Marcus, TABLOID Publications

Honesty Without Compassion is Brutality is released in two volumes,
Volume 1, 20 December 2019
Volume 2, 20 January 2020

Produced with Miccel Mohr
Mastered by Malthe Fischer

Digital LP - Cat. No. SR010
Silicone Records 2020

Honesty Without Compassion is Brutality (Volume 2)

The Garden, Deflowered

'Skinned' is an album by ML Buch
Released July 3rd 2020 on Anyines

'Skinned' album website: anyines.com/skinned/
Stream: mlbuch.lnk.to/Skinned
Videos: www.youtube.com/c/MLBuch

Can You Hear My Heart Leave, I’m A Girl You Can Hold IRL, Can’t Get Over You With You, Stone Bridge, Watering Mouth, Sap, Boarding, Mw written and produced by ML Buch

Touching Screens, O and I Feel Like Giving You Things written and produced by ML Buch and Oliver Nehammer

All lyrics by ML Buch

Bass on Can You Hear My Heart Leave, Touching Screens and Mw by Johan Polder
Drums on Touching Screens and Mw by Kristof Gasior
Viola on Stone Bridge by Astrid Sonne
Midi drums and keys on Touching Screens by Oliver Nehammer

Mix by ML Buch, Oliver Nehammer & Jacob Brøndlund

Mastered by Emil Thomsen at ET Mastering

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