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emptyset’s new album Dissever builds on their ongoing exploration into the histories of electronic sound and media across the 20th century, considering the intertwined evolution of cosmic rock, minimalism and electronic music, viewed through their prospective dreams and overlapping technological ambitions. The compositions across Dissever draw threads from these pioneering production methods emerging in parallel across the late 1960’s, considering the cross talk between these fields and their radical intentions to carve out the future from differing paths, traversing the mystical and modern, while incorporating elements of the transformative, hypnotic, expansive and transcendent to define new principles within sound.
"Emptyset are in a class by themselves when it comes to excavating brutality out of silence." - Pitchfork
"Elliptical and visceral." - The Wire
“[Emptyset] mold recorded sound into weaponry, sharpening the edges and wrapping them in muddied and bloodied armor.” - Treble
"A brutalist aesthetic that's been going around in British techno for a while now, but Emptyset stand out from that crowd due to the poetry in their reductionism" - Uncut (8/10)
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The Boat Outside Your Window by Thalia Zedek Band is out today. Thalia Zedek’s considerable body of work demonstrates a clarity of vision, a singular performance style, and an expansive range. Her ability to deliver raw emotions through her vivid stories of loss and hope, strife and triumph is unmatched. Zedek’s mastery of songwriting is on full display on The Boat Outside Your Window. Her unique musical voice remains potent and pointed. Cultivating her sound with purpose and an unflinching view of humanity, Zedek’s words and music are both invigorating, and capable of capturing the deep emotional complexities of life. The Boat Outside Your Window is Thalia Zedek reaching new heights, reinforcing her status as a peerless songwriter and voice.
"[Zedek's] delivery ranges from hushed to strident against a backdrop of freeform country blues that plunges and rises around her... a powerful, politically charged investigation of a chaotic time in America.” - MOJO
“[Zedek] has rediscovered the energy that defined her work with Uzi, Live Skull and Come, pouring imposing defiance into [her music].” - The Wire
“Her rough, keening alto carries the hardest of sentiments; her band storms and surges, billowing up under the verses and crashing in release at the choruses,” - Dusted Magazine