Album · 2014
Bestial Burden
by Pharmakon
Bestial Burden is a 2014 noise album by Pharmakon. It runs 7 tracks across 33 minutes on Sacred Bones Records. Riffiter listeners rate it 5.0/5 from 1 rating.
Noise · Power Electronics · Industrial
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Pega a repulsão magnética do seu álbum de estreia e expande conceitualmente sobre ela - expande sobre seu aspecto sensorial e a temática de body horror que permeava "Abandon" e estende-a de maneira melhor delineada, mas não menos aterrorizante - pelo contrário, entre gritos, soluços e tosses, "Bestial Burden" é uma amplificação do sentimento de angústia dilacerante que demonstra perfeitamente o terror embebido na falta de controle sobre seu próprio corpo e como nossa própria natureza pode nos trair de maneira tão terrível.
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Four days before New York noise musician Margaret Chardiet was supposed leave for her first European tour as Pharmakon, she had a medical emergency which resulted in a major surgery. Suddenly, instead of getting on a plane, she was bedridden for three weeks, missing an organ. “After seeing internal photographs taken during the surgery, I became hyperaware of the complex network of systems just beneath the skin, any of which were liable to fail or falter at any time,” Chardiet said. “It all happened so fast and unexpectedly that my mind took a while to catch up to the reality of my recovery. I felt a widening divide between my physical and mental self. It was as though my body had betrayed me, acting as a separate entity from my consciousness. I thought of my corporeal body anthropomorphically, with a will or intent of its own, outside of my will's control, and seeking to sabotage. I began to explore the idea of the conscious mind as a stranger inside an autonomous vessel, and the tension that exists between these two versions of the self.”
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Consumed by these ideas, and unable to leave her bed, Chardiet occupied herself by writing the lyrics and music that would become Bestial Burden, the second Pharmakon LP for Sacred Bones Records. The record is a harrowing collection of deeply personal industrial noise tracks, each one brimming with struggle and weighted with the intensity of Chardiet’s internal conflict.
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In brief
- Is Bestial Burden good?
- Riffiter listeners rate Bestial Burden 5.0/5 from 1 rating.
- When was Bestial Burden released?
- Bestial Burden was released in 2014 on Sacred Bones Records.
- How many tracks are on Bestial Burden?
- Bestial Burden has 7 tracks, with a runtime of 33 minutes.
- What genre is Bestial Burden?
- Bestial Burden is catalogued under Noise, Power Electronics, Industrial.