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DRIFT. – Genderland (Vinyl, 12″)
Label: Avant! – AV!049
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, EP
Country: Italy
Released: 08 Sep 2017
Style: Synthwave, Synth-pop, Dub, Electro
“DRIFT. can be dark and dangerous, light and playful, always enigmatic. An iron fist in a velvet glove. Seduction with confrontation. A kiss with a razorblade.”
Sally Dige – Holding On (Vinyl, LP)
Label: Avant! – AV!050
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Italy
Released: 13 Sep 2017
Style: Synth-pop, Synthwave, Minimal, New Wave
Sally Dige is a multidisciplinary artist known for her darkly poetic yet highly danceable electro-pop songs, DIY stylistic videos, design and visual art. Sally‘s deep and commanding voice, coupled with her analogue-visual-processes and overlapping artistic mediums has formed an identity that oscillates between the edges of aggression and fragility, old and new. Holding On was created during the time of intense inner turmoil. Despite being stretched to her emotional limits, Sally did not let the weight of her circumstances break her, instead channeling all of her pain and fears into the production of a series of incredibly powerful songs. Stunningly, Sally used only her voice and a single synth to create this album. Even with so little gear, the songs are anything but minimal. Each song has a minimum of 100 tracks and, for some songs, 100 tracks for just the drum section alone. Every audible sound has 20 other sounds swimming beneath it. These are songs written for dance floors but are sung about loneliness, death and the meaninglessness of existence. Sally‘s work tows the line between a blissful innocence and a heavy darkness. Think Gina X flavored post punk-disco rubbing against Twitch-era Ministry‘s lost Sade collab or Enya on LSD after a break up.
Track Listing :
01. Holding On
02. Emptiness
03. Be Gone
04. Sail to Me
05. I Can‘t Be
06. This Life
07. No Need to Pretend
08. Holding On (Forces Extended Mix)
Qual – The Ultimate Climax
Label: Avant! – AV!051
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition
Country: Italy
Released: 28 Feb 2018
Style: EBM, Techno, Industrial
Qual is finally back with his much-anticipated second full-length album. On The Ultimate Climax William Maybelline takes the hints of his previous Cupio Dissolvi EP to a fully extended sulphurous formula. Eight tracks where traditional goth standards get updated to new, bizarre heights. The opener Black Crown is a brooding industrial, almost power electronics assault. Above Thee Below Thee is a powered-up disco nightmare with BM-like volcals, drenched in factory steam and urban filth. Take Me Higher has some sort of electro-funk bassline to it. The closing track is a 155 bpm epitaph reminiscent of Czech Doomcore pioneers Fifth Era. The past is gone, the future is corrupted. The is no time but the present to brutally unload this Existential Nihilism thus let The Ultimate Climax unfold.
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