CLOUD RAT - Threshold

CLOUD RAT: new album "Threshold" to be released on Artoffact Records; first single "Cusp" now streaming

Artoffact Records announces the October 7th release of Threshold, the new full-length album by Cloud Rat.

Pre-order Threshold, here:

https://cloudrat.bandcamp.com/album/threshold
 
Stream the album's first single, "Cusp," here:

https://cloudrat.bandcamp.com/album/threshold

https://open.spotify.com/album/1ScsurWyEHcEajRxj9OGvv

With more than twenty releases under its belt – a treasure trove of albums, EPs, splits, and seven-inches, released since 2010 – Cloud Rat is a singular force in the extreme music scene, creating a legacy of crucial work by way of pure catharsis.

Cloud Rat's every move is executed with intensity; every note is delivered with conviction. Cloud Rat is the sound of three humans pushed to the edge – the threshold – and giving one hundred percent of themselves to the present moment.

Cloud Rat has been labelled a "grindcore" band, but the prolific Michigan trio is so much more. Cloud Rat's only rule is realness. Within its punishing songs, the band glides freely through a range of musical forms; underneath its full-throttle grind swirls a Lake Superior of emotion. Vocalist Madison Marshall's gut-purging screams and drummer Brandon Hill's hyperactive hammering meld with guitarist Rorik Brooks' kaleidoscope of epic riffs and occasional synths, into songs that are equally wild-eyed, bone-crushing, and heartbreaking.

A review from Kerrang! Magazine of 2019's Pollinator album reads: "Their music is inexhaustible, spasming through elaborate rackets of heaving riffs, spit-flecked vocals, and berserk percussion without ever slowing down. At the same time, there’s an atmospheric creep to their music that gives it a hard menace."

Guitarist Rorik Brooks believes new album Threshold to be the pinnacle of his band's career thus far, unifying its liberated approach into one cohesive thrust: "To me, Threshold feels like a response to all of our earlier material. I think we finally have a successful distillation of all our seemingly disparate influences, into what I feel is our best work so far. It builds upon earlier Cloud Rat material with expanded songwriting, technical prowess, and overall intensity, while more organically incorporating the melodic and electronic leanings that we've been exploring over the years." 

Threshold was engineered and mixed by Brooks at his home studio and mastered by Harris Newman. 

Discussing the significance of the album title, Brooks states:"I like the idea that Threshold can mean both a boundary that can't be crossed or a maximum point, or a gateway that can be entered." 

Vocalist Madison Marshall concurs: "Threshold is the brink. Like, in open water, you can't come up for air, and after trying to get to the surface you feel weightless because it feels so much better to stop trying to get air. It feels better to sink."  

"Threshold represents the full culmination of years of struggle, frustration and anguish," states drummer Brandon Hill. "The brink."

Tracklist:
1) Aluminum Branches
2) The Color of a Dog
3) Inner Controller (Lucid Running Home)
4) Cusp
5) 12-22-09
6) Listening Ear
7) Shepherd
8) Imaging Order
9) Persocom
10) Porcelain Boat
11) Kaleidoscope
12) Ribbon Boat
13) Corset
14) Ursitory
15) Babahaz

Lineup:
Madison Marshall - vocals
Rorik Brooks - guitar, keyboards
Brandon Hill - drums, modular synths, keyboards, viola, noise

Photo by Luke Mouradian

Cover art by Jacob van Loon

KEN mode - NULL

KEN mode: new album "NULL" to be released via Artoffact Records; new single "A Love Letter" streaming now; Revolver premieres music video

Artoffact Records proudly announces the September 23rd release of NULL, the new album by KEN mode.

Stream the official music video for the album's first single, "A Love Letter," here:

https://www.revolvermag.com/music/hear-ken-mode-ferocious-new-song-love-letter

Stream the single, here:
https://kenmode.bandcamp.com/track/a-love-letter
https://open.spotify.com/album/0I8Yv6gRPKHeRZzBIB2mXf
https://itunes.apple.com/album/id/1622643191

Pre-order the album, here:
https://kenmode.bandcamp.com/album/null

Recorded and mixed by Andrew Schneider (Cave In, Unsane), NULL is KEN mode's eighth full-length album. The follow-up to 2018's acclaimed Loved, it is the band's first release for Artoffact.

Frontman Jesse Matthewson proclaims NULL to be "a direct psychological reaction to the collective experience of the last two and a half years... a documentation of trying to not fall apart." In Matthewson's words, "the album exposes the emotional core of combating mental illness when one’s fine-tuned coping mechanisms have been involuntarily stripped away." 

As the COVID pandemic threatened the essential, stabilizing forces in his life – including the ability to create, tour, and connect with the world, via KEN mode – Matthewson says he sunk to new depths. "I've built my adult life around communities and activities that have both given it meaning and helped me manage my own mental health," he states. "In 1999 I didn't know why I needed to create, I just wanted to. In 2022, it's one of the only acts I have left that keeps away crippling depression. I need this act to concentrate and neutralize the poison in my brain."

From the pitch black of the pandemic came a sliver of light. With his means of fulfillment and survival in jeopardy, Matthewson was instilled with a newfound urgency to make the most authentic and courageous art possible. New album NULL is the result. "We tried to experiment more with our sound than we ever have before. We felt like there was really no reason to do anything at all unless we were trying to push this into something new."

NULL is the first KEN mode release to feature collaborator Kathryn Kerr as a full-fledged member of the band. With Kerr on saxophone, synth, piano, percussion, and backing vocals, the album features a new palette of No Wave and industrial-tinged sounds, infiltrating some of its tracks. The band's well-honed attack – "defined by the Venn diagram of adventurous hardcore (Converge, Deadguy) and noise-rock (Today Is the Day, Brainbombs)," as a Revolver write-up once put it – is strengthened now by shades of Swans and Einsturzende Neubauten. 

First single "A Love Letter" bursts out of the gate with Kerr's discordant sax wailing over the machine-like walloping of Matthewson, his brother Shane Matthewson on drums, and longtime bassist Skot Hamilton. Not unlike John Zorn collaborating with Napalm Death, the sour synergy of the contrasting elements results in a song that writhes and screams with wild-eyed desperation. "Something is broken, something is fucked," goes the refrain.

 

More than 20 years deep now, founded in 1999 by the Matthewson brothers, KEN mode has come to define the intensity and dedication inherent in its name – an acronym for "Kill Everyone Now," coined by Henry Rollins to describe Black Flag's approach to performance. Past KEN mode tourmates include Russian Circles, Torche, Deafheaven, Full of Hell, and many more. Past releases include seven full-length albums and one EP, produced by the likes of Steve Albini, Kurt Ballou, and Matt Bayles. NULL sees this warhorse of a band emerge from the darkest of times with new energy, ready to carry on into its next chapter, ready to evolve into its next form.

NULL is the first part of what Matthewson describes as a two-album arc, with the second part coming soon, also on Artoffact: "The two album arc was written with the intention of being two separate works that could be coupled together to make one full album with a cohesive flow and feeling, with every song holding a specific place and feeling within the overarching theme."

Tracklist:
1) A Love Letter
2) Throw Your Phone in the River
3) The Tie
4) But They Respect My Tactics
5) Not My Fault
6) Lost Grip
7) The Desperate Search for an Enemy
8) Unresponsive

Lineup:
Jesse Matthewson - vocals, guitar, synth, percussion
Shane Matthewson - drums, percusion
Skot Hamilton - bass, backing vocals, percussion
Kathryn Kerr - saxophone, synth, piano, backing vocals
Natanielle Felicitas - cello on "Unresponsive" 

Production:

Recorded and mixed by Andrew Schneider

Mastered by Carl Saff

Artwork and layout by Randy Ortiz

Photo of KEN mode by Brenna Faris

Discography:

NULL (Artoffact Records, 2022)

Loved (Season of Mist, 2018)
Nerve EP (Reptilian, 2016)
Success (Season of Mist, 2015)
Entrench (Season of Mist, 2013)
Venerable (Profound Lore/Init/Throatruiner, 2011)
Mennonite (Arctodus/No List, 2008)
Reprisal (Escape Artist/No List, 2006)
Mongrel (Escape Artist, 2003)

Tour – KEN mode, Vile Creature, Mares of Thrace:
Sep 23 - Winnipeg, MB, CA @ The Good Will Social Club
Sep 24 - Saskatoon, SK, CA @ Amigos Cantina
Sep 25 - Calgary, AB, CA @ Palomino Smokehouse
Sep 26 - Edmonton, AB, CA @ Starlite Room Temple

Tour – KEN mode, Frail Body:
Oct 20 - St Paul, MN @ Turf Club
Oct 21 - Davenport, IA @ Raccoon Motel
Oct 22 - Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
Oct 23 - Indianapolis, IN @ Black Circle Brewing Co.
Oct 24 - Columbus, OH @ Big Room Bar
Oct 25 - Nashville, TN @ DRKMTTR
Oct 26 - Little Rock, AR @ Vino's
Oct 27 - Oklahoma City, OK @ 89th Street
Oct 28 - Austin, TX @ The Lost Well
Oct 29 - Houston, TX @ Black Magic
Oct 30 - Denton, TX @ No Coast Fest
Oct 31 - New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa
Nov 2 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
Nov 3 - Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor
Nov 4 - Philadelphia, PA @ Silk City
Nov 5 - Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus
Nov 6 - Cambridge, MA @ Middle East
Nov 7 - Montreal, QC @ Turbo Haus
Nov 8 - Toronto, ON @ The Baby G
Nov 9 - Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary
Nov 10 - Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club
Nov 12 - Fargo, ND @ The Aquarium

https://ken-mode.com/

https://artoffactrecords.bandcamp.com/

THE BEARER - "Let It Burn"

THE BEARER: metallic hardcore rippers break ties with religion on new single "Let It Burn"

Austin, Texas band The Bearer has revealed new single "Let It Burn," from its upcoming new album, Chained to a Tree. The metallic hardcore unit's first full-length, Chained to a Tree will be released July 1st on Silent Pendulum Records.

Stream the song, here: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2022/06/07/track-premiere-the-bearer-let-it-burn/

Pre-order the album, here: https://silentpendulumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chained-to-a-tree

From the album's first note through its last, The Bearer barrels forth, possessed by the same fiery spirit that once burned inside the likes of Converge and Botch. Like those bands, The Bearer's brand of hardcore punk is wildly emotional yet supremely structured. A fine balance of chaos and control, songs careen on the brink of derailment but the speeding train always stays on the track.

Drummer Colton Siegmund is one of that rare breed of singing drummers – to which Code Orange's Jami Morgan also belongs – who can scream with throat-scouring conviction whilst pounding the drums like a boss.

Siegmund gives this statement about the new single: “‘Let It Burn’ details my thoughts of the church after spending five years of my life in it, constantly being taken advantage of and eventually abandoned. I was at one point a youth leader, a worship leader and a sound tech, all while not being compensated. When I let it be known that I could no longer spend my time doing so for free, I was offered an unpaid internship. I left the church that day and none of the leaders ever reached out to or spoke to me again. This is just one example of a time when organized religion hurt me and this song is me letting that part of my life burn."

Chained to a Tree was engineered and mixed by Andrew Hernandez (Mammoth Grinder, This Will Destroy You). The artwork was created by Alexandre Goulet (All Out War, Despised Icon).

Photo by Zach Brigham-Delude

Out today: DEAD WAVES - Abandoned Children

Abandoned Children, the new EP by Dead Waves, is out today on Entheon Records.

Dead Waves is a truly unique NYC duo – two brothers, born and raised in Queens, who have been making music together for a decade. Their early music had a Nirvana/Pixies noise-rock vibe (and they recorded a 7" with Steve Albini) but on recent recordings they have dropped the volume and gone in a psych-folk direction – distant, dreamlike, haunting, fragmented songs, sometimes utilizing traditional Greek instruments in honor of their Greek heritage.

New EP Abandoned Children, the brothers' seventh release in all, was recorded by Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans), with standout track "Innermost" produced by Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave, PJ Harvey).

"It's about feeling empathy for all the abandoned children who feel hopeless in our present day reality," says Dead Waves' Teddy Panopoulos.

Stream the EP and buy it, here: https://deadwaves.com/album/abandoned-children

More info: https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2022/04/dead-waves-abandoned-children.html

"Nick and Teddy Panopoulos find fragile intensity in haunting psych and folk arrangements, creating raw strange, and soulful meditations on the titular “abandoned children"... Perfectly balancing hypnotic fractured beauty and raw simmering menace.”

–Under the Radar

"Minimized percussion and bass, spectral guitar drones, and pained, muted vocals swirling around the album’s seven haunted tracks... Ranges in sound from the early bedroom slowcore recordings of The Antlers to doom-metal mainstays Thou’s unplugged 'Inconsolable' EP."

–Flood

“Every Dead Waves release has been compelling, but it feels like they have finally found their true sound. As quiet as this release is, it never comes across as passive or toothless. This music feels as important as it does ethereal. It sounds like ghosts at the edge of the firelight trying to tell us something. Are we listening?”

–Burning Ambulance

“A dream unto itself.”

–CVLT Nation

"A haunting, heartbreaking experience."

–Northern Transmissions

DUMB WAITER + V13

 

Stream the new DUMB WAITER track, "Digging a Hole Under a Bodega," via V13, here:

https://v13.net/2022/05/premiere-dumb-waiter-live-out-their-dreams-on-the-outlandish-digging-a-hole-under-a-bodega/

Formed in 2012 in Richmond, VA, Dumb Waiter was founded by Nick Crider and Nathaniel Roseberry. As Nick explains it, the band’s formation came out of humorous necessity: “Back then, I was the booking agent at non-profit venue space and I had booked Lightning Bolt and wanted to be a complete brat and play the show as well. So I asked Nathaniel to start a noise power violence band. After a few practices, Nath brought in more players (Tristan Brennis and Keith Paul) and Dumb Waiter was formed.” Since then, the band has mutated to what could be described as avant-garde jazz rock, looking to move away from being pigeonholed into the “math rock” label that they generally don’t relate to. A testament to their dynamic sound, Dumb Waiter has shared the stage with a diverse array of talented bands including Tera Melos, Lightning Bolt, Behold the Arctopus, Ex Eye (Colin Stetson), David Liebe Hart, Eternal Summers, Weasel Walter, Cleric, Young Widows, Jaye Jayle, and Screaming Females.

 

Gauche Gists will be released June 24th, 2022 on Ossein Records. Gauche Gists will be released on cassette (ltd. edition of 50), as well as a limited pressing of 100 copies on citron-colored vinyl, with hand-numbered inserts. Preorder, here.

THE BEARER - Chained to a Tree

THE BEARER: Austin TX metallic hardcore unit to release debut full-length album "Chained to a Tree" via Silent Pendulum Records; new music video streaming

Silent Pendulum Records presents the July 1st release of Chained to a Tree, the debut album by Austin, Texas band The Bearer.

Stream the music video for first single "Jagged Lines," here: https://noecho.net/features/the-bearer-austin-band

Pre-order Chained to a Tree, here: https://silentpendulumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chained-to-a-tree

From the album's first note through its last, The Bearer barrels forth, possessed by the same fiery spirit that once burned inside the likes of Converge and Botch. Like those bands, The Bearer's brand of hardcore punk is wildly emotional yet supremely structured. A fine balance of chaos and control, songs careen on the brink of derailment but the speeding train always stays on the track.

Vocalist Colton Siegmund screams with so much throat-scouring conviction, every word hits like a deathbed confession from the recesses of a broken soul. It seems highly improbable that such a powerful vocalist could simultaneously be smacking drums, but indeed, Siegmund is a singing drummer whose deft pounding swerves from galloping punk beats to halftime mosh incitements. Michael Delaney's guitar and newest member Jeffrey Blum's bass conjoin into thick, warm tones, turning on a dime, from the fast and scrappy, to the epic and luminous, to the chugging and lethal. 

Across twelve songs, the band delivers knockout after knockout. These are not blind punches – underneath the bursts of passion there lies an orchestrated mix of vibes derived from punk, metal, noise-rock, post-rock, and beyond.

The Bearer's three members are all veterans of the Austin scene. "Michael and I were born and raised in the Austin area and have spent our lives in the scene here," says Siegmund. "We’ve been playing in bands for close to two decades. Jeffrey moved to Austin after graduating college and has been a part of things here for over ten years now." Releasing three EPs since its formation in 2016, the band has come into its own on Chained to a Tree. It is the band's first release with Blum; both Blum and Siegmund are also members of notable Austin punks Drip-Fed.

The changing face of Austin is a major force in the band's story. Siegmund speaks about "billionaires taking over the city" in recent years and how the city's explosive growth is threatening the arts. "This record was written at four different practice spaces as the Austin market boomed and all of our practice spaces were sold off to be turned into offices and Tesla showrooms," he states. 

In a city rocked by the transformative effects of capitalism, The Bearer brings a humanistic message to the table. "The main message is that every human being deserves respect, to be cared for and represented," says Siegmund. Lyrics rally on behalf of the individual, against all manner of smothering institutions – capitalism, religion, government, societal norms. "We’ve never thought of ourselves as a political band but in a time where basic human rights are being questioned, we feel more politically charged." 

Chained to a Tree was engineered and mixed by Andrew Hernandez (Mammoth Grinder, This Will Destroy You). The artwork was created by Alexandre Goulet (All Out War, Despised Icon).

Tracklist:
1) Pulled Back In
2) Jagged Lines
3) Gleam
4) Let It Burn
5) In the Sty
6) Sympathy Pains
7) Jury of Oppressors
8) Chained to a Tree
9) Axes 
10) No Defendable Position
11) Peaceful Sleep 
12) Holy Water 

Lineup:

Michael Delaney - guitar

Jeffrey Blum - bass
Colton Siegmund - drums, vocals

Discography:
Chained to a Tree - LP, 2022

Adapt | Adjust - EP, 2018

Fiction - EP, 2017

The Bearer - EP, 2016

Photos by Zach Brigham-Delude

LAMENT CITYSCAPE - "Innocence of Shared Experiences"

LAMENT CITYSCAPE: industrial-metal phenom releases surreal music video for stunning new track "Innocence of Shared Experiences" 

Industrial-metal phenom Lament Cityscape has released the official music video for its new track, "Innocence of Shared Experiences."

Directed by Neil Corbin, the video is a thrilling, Lynchian clip – a stylish, surreal portrayal of darkness lurking just beneath the surface of normal life. A portrait of disconnection and alienation, the video serves to illustrate the song's primary lyric: “You'll never know me and you’ll never know anyone.”

Stream the video, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZeZVeD6Wcw

"Innocence of Shared Experiences" appears on Lament Cityscape's brand new album, A Darker Discharge, out now on Lifeforce Records. While much of the band's work is centered in the punishing and abrasive – comparisons to Godflesh, Code Orange, and Uniform have been flying around – "Innocence of Shared Experiences" taps into a glistening, dream-like vibe, more in line with the melancholy sounds of Jesu or The Soft Moon's Luis Vazquez.

A Darker Discharge is the band's 13th release in all. Lament Cityscape mastermind Mike McClatchey relocated to rural Wyoming for the writing and recording of the album.

Stream the album and buy it, here: https://lamentcityscapelfr.bandcamp.com/

More info: https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2022/02/lament-cityscape-darker-discharge.html

"Breathtaking, like if Justin Broadrick fully reconciled Jesu’s heartbreak with Godflesh’s deathly lurch."
–SPIN

"This is one of the most powerful and interesting albums I've heard in some time... Uniform's intensity mixed with an early 00's cinematic score."
–Metal Injection

"Industrial, metal, and the darker side of the synthpop spectrum converge in the world of Lament Cityscape."
–No Echo

DEAD WAVES - "Innermost"

DEAD WAVES: NYC duo premieres haunting new track "Innermost," produced by Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave, PJ Harvey)

NYC duo Dead Waves has revealed new track "Innermost" from its upcoming new Abandoned Children EP.

The track was recorded by Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans) and produced by Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave, PJ Harvey).

Out May 27th on Entheon Records, Abandoned Children is the band's seventh release in all.

Stream the track, here: https://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/premiere_dead_waves_shares_new_single_innermost

Pre-order the EP, here: https://deadwaves.com/album/abandoned-children

In the words of Under The Radar Magazine, "Nick and Teddy Panopoulos find fragile intensity in haunting psych and folk arrangements, creating raw, strange, and soulful meditations. 'Innermost' ripples with a quiet sense of foreboding and aggression... Dead Waves captures an indelible element of primal fear, perfectly balancing hypnotic fractured beauty and raw simmering menace."

Abandoned Children is an utterly authentic piece of art that leads and does not follow. As subdued as they are, Dead Waves' fragile guitars and distant vocals are loaded with memories of violence; the songs hit like fragments of past horrors, glimpsed through the fog of decades, or like slippery revelations received and lost within dreams. Through seven tracks, Teddy Panopoulos and his brother Nick conjure quiet intensity that cuts to the bone – a dark mix of psych, folk, and noise-rock.

Teddy states: “It's about feeling empathy for all the abandoned children who feel hopeless in our present day reality."

Early Dead Waves releases, including the Steve Albini-produced Oracles of the Grave/Promise 7", rocked in a heavy-garage fashion, sparking comparisons to Nirvana and Pixies. Over the course of its seven releases, the band has gradually severed ties with rock conventions and blossomed into an unfettered, experimental musical entity. Gone now are the drums and roars, but in this rawer state the music is more powerful than ever.

With Abandoned Children, Teddy and Nick continue marching to their own beat, making music that is soulful and strange and brimming with the confidence of true artists. As Dead Waves' volume continues to drop, its impact continues to soar.

More info: https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2022/04/dead-waves-abandoned-children.html

Photo by Jeremy Balderson

HAUNTED HORSES - New LP Announcement + "Pig" Video

 

"a caustic punk/goth/industrial fusion that would fit in nicely next to anything from '80s Swans to latter-day Daughters. It's a punishing, thunderous track that really offers up a fresh take on this sound, and it comes with a well-matched video made by Andy Wallis (Displaced/Replaced)."

— BrooklynVegan

Watch the video for new single "Pig," as well as read more about the upcoming album via BrooklynVegan: 

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/haunted-horses-announce-new-lp-for-three-one-g-watch-the-pig-video/

Haunted Horses is an industrial-punk duo hailing from Seattle, WA. Their sound is thunderous and chaotic, utilizing wall of noise techniques through an onslaught of keys, guitars and drums. Myke Pelly's off kilter drumming and Colin Dawson's architectural noise structures create jittery post-punk that is both upbeat and gloomy. Most recently, the band enlisted Seattle-based bassist Brian McClelland of Filth is Eternal and He Whose Ox is Gored, creating an added level of heavy rhythmic noise that not only contributes an exciting dynamic layer to the album sonically, but to their already-captivating live performance as well. The bleak vocals are persistently ominous in a seductive way, conjuring up the nightmarish aura of a dissonant horror-film soundtrack. With reviewers like Anthony Fantano (Needle Drop) likening their previous work to legendary bands such as Swans, Bauhaus, and Killing Joke, Haunted Horses carry on the tradition of noise that can terrorize as well as entrance, oftentimes simultaneously. This is evident in the list of hard-hitting contemporaries they’ve shared the stage and toured with, including Lingua Ignota, Portrayal of Guilt, A Place to Bury Strangers, Bambara, and Boy Harsher. Fans of Einstürzende Neubauten, Swans, Girl Band, Death Grips, The Soft Moon, Daughters, Street Sects, Ho99o9, and Uniform will find Haunted Horses a welcome addition to their lexicon.

 

“Pig” is a single off of the upcoming LP, The Worst Has Finally Happened, which will be released on limited vinyl via Three One G Records on July 29th, 2022. Preorder, here.

The Worst Has Finally Happened tracklist:

1. House of the World to Come

2. The Garden

3. Pig

4. Window Sung

5. The Worst

6. Swarms

7. Thorns

8. Golden Stairs

9. Cold Machine

10. Severed Circle

DUMB WAITER - ‘Acceptance Speech to an Empty Room’

“This song stumbled its way to fruition fairly quickly. We made a concerted effort to leave negative space for this recurring, interrupting saxophone. Harnessing the mutated essence of both John Zorn and Lisa Simpson, the sax assumes the role of a barking dog, a tumbling stack of plates, an acceptance speech to an empty room. Jagged syllables ricocheting off of the empty chairs and bare concrete walls. The song then spirals into a bout of madness for the next 30 seconds until finding its footing in a placid, reverberating pool of synth’d-out guitar and thick bass tones, misshapen sax harmonies and deteriorating drums.”

- Dumb Waiter

Stream the new track by DUMB WAITER, "Acceptance Speech to an Empty Room," via New Noise Magazine, here:

https://newnoisemagazine.com/track-premiere-dumb-waiter-acceptance-speech-to-an-empty-room/

Gauche Gists will be released June 24th, 2022 on Ossein Records. Gauche Gists will be released on cassette (ltd. edition of 50), as well as a limited pressing of 100 copies on citron-colored vinyl, with hand-numbered inserts. Preorder, here.