{"title":"Enmossed","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"pareidolia-1","title":"Pareidolia","description":"\u003cp\u003eNamed after the tendency to impose familiar likenesses, such as faces, on random - usually inanimate - objects, \u003cem\u003ePareidolia\u003c\/em\u003e is Jake Muir's way of interpreting the consonances between so-called “ambient” music and extreme heavy metal. Extracting the headiest, most atmospheric sections from hundreds of death metal and black metal tracks, Muir plays the role of both DJ and electroacoustic composer, concocting a lysergic elixir of fractal distortions and prolonged, decelerated riffs that slowly evaporates into iridescent vapor. If there's any trace of the original sources left, Muir makes sure that residue is subtly bewildering, like clouds in the sky that form imposing, larger than life images, or trampled bracken that falls into the shape of “trve kvlt” insignia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe idea for the album materialized when Muir was working on 2022's \u003cem\u003eTalisman\u003c\/em\u003e, his collaborative album with multi-instrumentalist Evan Caminiti. Processing guitar for the first time, Muir began to unpack his long relationship with rock music and its Escher-like maze of sub-genres, from the tech metal he obsessed over as a teenager to Loop and Main's drone-y, textured variants. Scraping the internet for unconventional contemporary metal albums, he stumbled across music that seemed to hover between different realms, merging its frenetic, noisy sections with psychedelic interludes that harmonize with classic industrial and avant-garde music, material like :zoviet*france:, Nocturnal Emissions and Z'EV.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuir fixates on this semi-permeable membrane on \u003cem\u003ePareidolia\u003c\/em\u003e, infusing his pitch-skewed weightless drones with gravel and aerating his archive of rasping samples with a sense of euphoria that might seem contradictory at first. Evocative creaks and rainfall sounds create layers of noise around a staccato pluck on 𝘖𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘯 and Muir's theme begins to crystallize. The inherent rhythm forms a slow, ritualistic thump and the additional sounds - celestial wails and goosebump-inducing harmonic rattles - form an imposing, painterly backdrop. On \u003cem\u003eEach Uisage \u003c\/em\u003emeanwhile, the high pitched guitar sounds cascade over gorgeous choral pads, while dissociated vocal pops and cracks vanish into the darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePareidolia\u003c\/em\u003e is an album that plays like an optical illusion: 𝘜𝘯𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘺 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 transforms bone-rattling foley sounds and unnerving groans into woozy, psychedelic textures and 𝘈𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢 steams doomy riffs and haunted clanks until they float like the erotic soundscapes that curled through Muir's breakout\u003cem\u003e Bathouse Blues\u003c\/em\u003e. It's an act of sonic sleight of hand that feels fittingly disorienting. Heavy doesn't need to be deafening.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Enmossed","offers":[{"title":"LP - Recycled Random Colour","offer_id":56972369199435,"sku":"R3437-1589","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/03b1829d-0f8f-10c3-5028-10fca0ff4deb.jpg?v=1775558923"},{"product_id":"glass-torso","title":"Glass Torso","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoe Fujinoki centered the compositions of his latest album Glass Torso around the idea of the fragility of the human body. Fujinoki described the narrative thread of the album as that of “holding the shape of a human body as if it might shatter like glass”. The precariousness of the body, the essence of the body as defined by Fujinoki as the torso, and the object relations between the boundaries of dialectical exercises pack themselves into his creative process. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFujinoki recorded \u003cem\u003eGlass Torso\u003c\/em\u003e exclusively with analog synthesizers, stumbling in and out of structural loops to find space for accidental discoveries. The ten pieces of recorded material feel somewhere on the edge of typified form, feeling like a vascular system pumping in and out its undulating liquidities. Maybe this is the hollowed space held together by Fujinoki’s notion of the torso where you hear a microscopic world, dubby and generative. Fujinoki is adept at organizing this realm of subtle sound sources, giving proper considerations of shared tonal space. Seemingly, this handling of the precarity of sonic material elucidates Fujinoki’s mature attention to detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmbient music genre tropes often affirm the listeners vessel for escape and dissociation. It provides an intoxicating allure by respite from an overwhelming exterior reality far outside the listeners controls. Here this space becomes apolitical, or its protest vocabulary softer and subtle. Fujinoki does not aim to tackle hyperobject topics on how to course correct the world, but he does something increasingly rarer to come across. On \u003cem\u003eGlass Torso\u003c\/em\u003e an alternative space is created not as shelter, but as a meditation on negotiation and compromise. This twenty eight minutes of audio lays down a foundation for imagination, for imagining how to negotiate the fragility of the self. Zoomed out, the implications of his negotiative sonics can be a playground for broader reflections on distributive care and attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFujinoki says he feels “alert” to his physicality and placement in the world amidst vast digital cultures creating impositions on him and his surroundings. On Glass Torso he creates a concretized space on a vinyl record, where the virtual and the tangible antagonize one another that create the spectacle of the listening experience. This spectacle is a soft one, a considered one, and an utmost enjoyable one. Fujinoki juggles opposing forces brilliantly, and formulates an exquisite palette of soft passing music so he can also help the listener with the exquisite burden of their own \u003cem\u003eGlass Torso.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Enmossed","offers":[{"title":"LP - Recycled Random Colour","offer_id":56972787089739,"sku":"R8746-7213","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/bc63fddd-0ecb-2318-e68a-2b3d0134e32e.jpg?v=1775562835"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/enmossed.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}