Building from a reputation of arresting live performances and critically acclaimed releases Puce Mary breaks new ground with The Drought, evolving from the tropes of industrial and power electronics to forge a complex story of adapting to new realities. Remnants of noise still exist, sustaining the penetrative viscerality offered on previous records, however The Drought demon...(展开全部) Building from a reputation of arresting live performances and critically acclaimed releases Puce Mary breaks new ground with The Drought, evolving from the tropes of industrial and power electronics to forge a complex story of adapting to new realities. Remnants of noise still exist, sustaining the penetrative viscerality offered on previous records, however The Drought demonstrates an intention to expand on the vocabulary of confrontational music and into a grander narrative defined by technical and emotional growth. Bringing together introspective examination with literary frameworks by writers such as Charles Baudelaire and Jean Genet, Puce Mary’s compositions manifest an ongoing power struggle within the self towards preservation. The traumatised body serves as a dry landscape of which obscured memories and escape mechanisms fold reality into fiction, making sense of desire, loss and control. The Drought presents both danger and opportunity; through rebuilding a creative practice centred on first person narrative and a deliberate collage of field recordings and sound sources Puce Mary’s injects an acute urgency across the album seeking resilience. “To Possess Is To Be In Control” makes use of lyrical repetition as an ambiguity of two selves, or a divided self, attempting to consume one another, while “Red Desert,” named after Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1964 film, portrays the individual subsumed by surrounding environmental forces. The seven-minute epic “The Size of Our Desires” acts as the emotional tipping point of the record; amongst the ominous drone and dense feedback flutters almost-beatific melodies, while the lyrics reveal a romantic call to be swept up in the midst of an increasingly uninhabitable world. Rather than escape, The Drought dramatises a metamorphosis in which vulnerability is confronted through regeneration. Noise and aggression no longer act as an affront to react against but part of a ‘corporeal architecture’ where space, harmony and lyricism surface from the harsh tropes of industrial music. The Drought chronologises the artist’s transformation through a psychological famine, new ways of coping akin to plant survival in a desert – to live without drying out. The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring cover art by Torbjørn Rødland.
“一堆破碎的景象—奋力锤炼着地面的太阳,不能再提供任何阴凉的已经死去的树,已无力鸣叫的蟋蟀,干燥得不能再干的石头…..我会在无边的沙风中展示我的恐惧”(A heap of broken images, where the sun beats/And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief/And ...
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1 有用 大头 2019-03-11 05:26:34
没法评/0308,可以评了,就是现代艺术中的一个声音装置,给自己增加点致幻效果就变成vr电影了。后半部分不太行
0 有用 IDKAboutYou 2018-10-07 22:42:28
A-(84)见长评
0 有用 。 2018-10-05 20:58:22
封面与内容很相符
0 有用 DOUBLE 2018-10-27 21:05:56
不能出声的世界。
2 有用 Nin 2019-03-26 08:10:52
比spiral冷静讨喜 虽说不明白跟热内或波德莱尔有任何直接关系 也只是题目致敬安东尼奥尼red desert其实毫不相干?(误
0 有用 juvenilezzz 2023-05-20 19:45:36 湖北
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0 有用 离子态外星金鱼 2025-06-27 14:00:13 北京
还行吧听完没印象了
0 有用 superweak 2023-07-25 11:35:14 浙江
4.5
0 有用 wavefunction 2025-02-13 00:45:14 北京
刻意的地方很难忽略,不过还是被锻造出的听感牢笼吓了一跳。所有延展所有扩散在此时此刻被禁锢,剩下只有沉重的呼吸
0 有用 冰西瓜 2024-11-16 21:43:03 新西兰
1泡沫破碎的声音 3噪音 一惊一乍 飘忽不定的女声旁白 迷幻质感依旧 但是感觉不如之前的了 总这样也没意思 6逐渐螺旋升天的情绪