#The divine transfiguration of Pharmakon

#The divine transfiguration of Pharmakon

The industrial noise artist talks Maggot Mass, her fifth studio album about death and the site of her own artistic regenesis. Mariano Cayo The cemetery groundskeeper has locked Margaret Chardiet and I inside by accident, meaning we have to scale a wrought-iron fence covered in sharp spikes. The task is no problem for the industrial…

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#Chelsea Wolfe faces her future

#Chelsea Wolfe faces her future

As she concludes her She Reaches Out trilogy, the proto-gothic songwriter is one step closer to transformation. Nicolas Sandino Moreno It’s the eve of the full moon when I speak to Chelsea Wolfe. Tonight, she will pull a tarot card and try to make peace with whatever archetype of the future she is faced with,…

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#Songs You Need In Your Life This Week

#Songs You Need In Your Life This Week

Songs You Need In Your Life This Week Tracks we love right now, in no particular order. By The FADER Each week, The FADER staff rounds up the songs we can’t get enough of. Here they are, in no particular order. Listen on our Spotify and Apple Music playlists, or hear them all below. Ethel…

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#New Music Friday: Stream projects from Yeat, Machine Girl, Christopher Owens, and more

#New Music Friday: Stream projects from Yeat, Machine Girl, Christopher Owens, and more

Stream every standout album released this Friday with The FADER’s weekly roundup. Signe Pierce / Molly O’Brien Every Friday, The FADER’s writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Yeat’s LYFESTYLE, Machine Girl’s MG ULTRA, TisaKorean’s In Silly We Trust, Kelly Lee Owens’ Dreamstate, and more. Yeat:…

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#What was NOISE?: UNSOUND, wrapped

#What was NOISE?: UNSOUND, wrapped

At UNSOUND 2024, a stacked lineup of far-flung artists gathered in Krakow to present their diverse interpretations of this year’s theme, NOISE. UNSOUND’s logo projected onto the wall of Kamienna 12. Photo by Michal Murawski.   Before Krakow’s annual UNSOUND festival kicked off on September 29, I sent its featured artists a deceptively simple question:…

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#A morning in Rafael Toral’s garden of drone

#A morning in Rafael Toral’s garden of drone

The Portuguese guitarist and soft-noise auteur brought the unassuming yet gorgeously complex sounds of his latest album, Spectral Revolution, to UNSOUND this week. Rafael Toral. Photo by Vera Marmelo.   Rafael Toral’s 30-year career as a solo recording artist is a story of perpetual growth — a more fluid line than most experimentalists take toward…

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#The artists of UNSOUND define NOISE

#The artists of UNSOUND define NOISE

Krakow’s UNSOUND festival kicked off on Sunday. In honor of this year’s NOISE theme, we asked its featured artists a deceptively simple question: What the fuck is noise? Image via publicist.   “What the fuck is noise?” asks sound artist and theorist Mattin at the start of his essay “Theses on Noise,” laid out plainly…

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#Fire-Toolz has a universe in her kitchen sink

#Fire-Toolz has a universe in her kitchen sink

Fire-Toolz has a universe in her kitchen sink The Chicago artist discusses musical meta-narratives, past and present pets, and how her chaotic new album Breeze relates to her peaceful new life in the ’burbs. By Raphael Helfand Angel Marcloid (Fire-Toolz). Photo by Bethany Puterbaugh.   Angel Marcloid has built a studio in her own image….

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#Pollution Opera regurgitate the world

#Pollution Opera regurgitate the world

The Egyptian-Welsh duo’s postmodern noise opera is one of this year’s most urgent albums so far. Pollution Opera: Nadah El Shazly (left) and Elvin Brandhi. Photo by Malik Beytrison.   Nada El Shazly’s voice is something to behold. Last weekend at 24-HOUR DRONE, I watched her perform a powerful set over a minimal backing track:…

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