Suffocating Brothers

by Autumns

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1.	I Never Noticed That You Left 05:40	buy track
2.	Female Model 05:22	buy track
3.	Forgotten Hangings 07:45	buy track
4.	No More Luxury 05:16	buy track
5.	Focused Youth 05:46	buy track
6.	Limit Experience 04:10	buy track
7.	Faceless 05:44	buy track
8.	Left Alone 05:36	buy track
9.	Heaven's Reward Fallacy 04:26	buy track
10.	I Watched Life (Digital Bonus) 04:08	buy track

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On Suffocating Brothers Autumns presents a resolute nine-track culmination of the fierce audacity that has come to define and distinguish the project since an assured first emergence in 2013. Written and produced over the course of six months, between July and December 2016, it’s an album that comes as a momentous and devastating fulfilment of what the Autumns project has outlined with increasingly ruthless intent over the last few years.

Suffocating Brothers elaborates on the lo-fi disarray and synthetic turbulence of previous outings with an eye for annihilation. Vocals reiterate like echo chamber death sentences, drum machines rattle and blister, clear-cut and sharp like broken glass, assaultive grinds of static and blasts of feedback suffuse it all like a ruptured maelstrom of FM interference. Yet with this harsh sense of ferocity and obliteration comes a reciprocal compulsion for action and release.

Bristling alongside these severe, experimental treatments are frantic, serrated analogue rhythms that situates these tracks, at certain moments, in the same continuum as Phuture and Sleezy D, if their more riotous trax were mired in the irrepressible machine abuse of Whitehouse and SPK. At other junctures a portentous strain of post-punk reveals the roots of Donaghey’s initial inspirations. Jackbooted dubs from the void and cataclysmic greyscale visions materialize, visions which stalk the same seditious course as Public Image Ltd and Cabaret Voltaire. A monochromatic psychedelia for the streets and back alleys you tend to avoid. Elsewhere and throughout, piercing, cavernous gusts of drone augment the disorder establishing an atmosphere which is at once stark and overwhelming. The overall effect is equivalent to an unrestrained assailment, a constant confrontation, a total siege.

As a whole Suffocating Brothers is a record unified by an extraordinary depth and physicality that encourages favourable comparisons to the incendiary ends of post-punk, noise, industrial, techno, coldwave, dub and drone. Categorisations, however, are only half of it. Ultimately these tracks transcend the constraints of any one specific association and are marked by a singular voice.

They’re the product of an ascendant few years and together they represent the project’s most essential statement to date. Yet they’re also a consolidation of what Autumns has done all along. To resent compliance and compromise, to spurn limits and restraint, to hunt ecstatic release through extremity. To keep kicking against the pricks.

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released September 23, 2017

Written, recorded, and produced by Autumns.

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Autumns

Downwards • Death & Leisure • Detriti • Opal Tapes

Noods Radio: Dyslexia Sound System

1/2 of Vacant Heads

Bookings/Press: antonia@altaragency.com

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