FLAGRANT, the new album by NYC industrial extremist Trace Amount, is out today on Bleakhouse, the label founded by King Yosef.
Tracked at Corpus Studios with Harlan Steed of Show Me The Body, FLAGRANT is the ultimate realization of the Trace Amount project, thus far. Founded six years ago by vocalist, drummer, producer, and visual artist Brandon Gallagher, Trace Amount explores the deepest, darkest recesses of human misery, working within its own unique palette of industrial, noise, metal, dub and hip hop influences.
On FLAGRANT, drums pound coldly and sparsely; ambient tones surge like choirs of evil angels; Gallagher’s groans and screams drip with contempt; techno-apocalyptic imagery abounds. It is perhaps not "music," but a beating, a purge, a guided tour of pure torment, likely to excite fans of Scorn, HIDE, and Dreamcrusher.
Against all odds, Gallagher has made big things happen for this highly inaccessible project, including tours of the US, Mexico, the UK, Australia, and Japan, and collabs with members of Frontline Assembly, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Pig Destroyer, Uniform, and more. Unapologetically, Gallagher continues to grind forward and burrow deeper into the world he has been building, playing by his own rules. The title of the new album says it all. "In basketball, the most aggressive foul you can get is a flagrant foul," he explains. "Like, you're literally swinging at another player with intent. That's me. I am intentional. I am flagrant."
Buy FLAGRANT, here:
Stream the official "Seeing God on the L Train" (ft. Fatboi Sharif) music video, here:
Stream the offical "Clinical" (ft. Lana del Rabies) music video, here:
"Absolute experimental-industrial-noise... Despite Gallagher’s commitment to open-ended song structure, there is a variable that refuses to die down on each release and that is general dread and ominous tidings."
–Brutal Resonance
"When I need a dose of harsh industrial noise, Trace Amount never disappoints... Like popping in a new wave cassette from the 1980s only to find out it’s been possessed by poltergeists. It’s a whirlwind of caustic sonics that sucks my brain into a place of pure blissful audio torment!"
–CVLT Nation
"'Clinical' seethes like an open wound. Gallagher’s voice tears through the track with the gravity of self-destruction, delivered like a clenched fist. The production is suffocating, arriving with industrial grit and precision, including Lana Del Rabies’ ghostly vocal which lingers like a spectral presence."
–Destroy//Exist
"Trace Amount’s new album, FLAGRANT, is a massive amplification of the tensions that makes industrial music so entrancing, but it’s not necessarily designed to make you dance. It almost borders on sound design as Trace Amount is more of an enveloping, evolving takeover of the senses."
–Fecking Bahamas
"NYC noise merchant Trace Amount doesn’t make it easy for you. The one man act’s latest release, FLAGRANT, trades in the power electronics adjacent sound of preceding records, boiled down to its most caustic form, with undiluted antipathy that cuts through the clatter and cacophony by way of sheer meanness... Even at a digestible 7 songs, its not a record you’ll want to throw on lightly, but there’s no shortage of perversely enjoyable hostility for your inner sicko to cling to when the mood strikes."
"When I need a dose of harsh industrial noise, Trace Amount never disappoints... Like popping in a new wave cassette from the 1980s only to find out it’s been possessed by poltergeists. It’s a whirlwind of caustic sonics that sucks my brain into a place of pure blissful audio torment!"
–CVLT Nation
"'Clinical' seethes like an open wound. Gallagher’s voice tears through the track with the gravity of self-destruction, delivered like a clenched fist. The production is suffocating, arriving with industrial grit and precision, including Lana Del Rabies’ ghostly vocal which lingers like a spectral presence."
–Destroy//Exist
"Trace Amount’s new album, FLAGRANT, is a massive amplification of the tensions that makes industrial music so entrancing, but it’s not necessarily designed to make you dance. It almost borders on sound design as Trace Amount is more of an enveloping, evolving takeover of the senses."
–Fecking Bahamas
"NYC noise merchant Trace Amount doesn’t make it easy for you. The one man act’s latest release, FLAGRANT, trades in the power electronics adjacent sound of preceding records, boiled down to its most caustic form, with undiluted antipathy that cuts through the clatter and cacophony by way of sheer meanness... Even at a digestible 7 songs, its not a record you’ll want to throw on lightly, but there’s no shortage of perversely enjoyable hostility for your inner sicko to cling to when the mood strikes."
–I Die: You Die
"A cold, hostile fusion of noise, metal, dub, and hip hop tracked at Corpus Studios with Show Me The Body’s Harlan Steed. Built on sparse, punishing drums and night-terror ambience, the record pushes Brandon Gallagher’s project deeper into its own abyss, with features from Fatboi Sharif and Lana del Rabies... FLAGRANT lands as Trace Amount’s most merciless vision yet."
–Idioteq
"Brandon Gallagher has unleashed a new auditory onslaught with 'Seeing God on the L Train,' offering the latest taste of the forthcoming FLAGRANT album from Trace Amount. The track sees the New York City-based industrial artist collaborating with New Jersey rapper Fatboi Sharif, whose deadpan wordplay contrasts with the metallic percussive minimalism of the instrumental, both eventually erupting into a noisy coda of maniacal wailing."
–ReGen
"Brandon Gallagher has unleashed a new auditory onslaught with 'Seeing God on the L Train,' offering the latest taste of the forthcoming FLAGRANT album from Trace Amount. The track sees the New York City-based industrial artist collaborating with New Jersey rapper Fatboi Sharif, whose deadpan wordplay contrasts with the metallic percussive minimalism of the instrumental, both eventually erupting into a noisy coda of maniacal wailing."
–ReGen
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