Puce Mary - Red Desert (PAN 87) by PAN published on 2018-08-09T08:13:59Z Puce Mary — The Drought Format: LP / CD / Digital Cat.No. PAN 87 Release Date: 5 October 2018 Pre-order album: bit.ly/2KGmn9f / bit.ly/2KGL7Ot Building from a reputation of arresting live performances and critically acclaimed releases Puce Mary breaks new ground with The Drought, evolving from the tropes of industrial and power electronics to forge a complex story of adapting to new realities. Remnants of noise still exist, sustaining the penetrative viscerality offered on previous records, however The Drought demonstrates an intention to expand on the vocabulary of confrontational music and into a grander narrative defined by technical and emotional growth. Bringing together introspective examination with literary frameworks by writers such as Charles Baudelaire and Jean Genet, Puce Mary’s compositions manifest an ongoing power struggle within the self towards preservation. The traumatised body serves as a dry landscape of which obscured memories and escape mechanisms fold reality into fiction, making sense of desire, loss and control. The Drought presents both danger and opportunity; through rebuilding a creative practice centred on first person narrative and a deliberate collage of field recordings and sound sources Puce Mary injects an acute urgency across the album seeking resilience. “To Possess Is To Be In Control” makes use of lyrical repetition as an ambiguity of two selves, or a divided self, attempting to consume one another, while “Red Desert,” named after Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1964 film, portrays the individual subsumed by surrounding environmental forces. The seven-minute epic “The Size of Our Desires” acts as the emotional tipping point of the record; amongst the ominous drone and dense feedback flutters almost-beatific melodies, while the lyrics reveal a romantic call to be swept up in the midst of an increasingly uninhabitable world. Rather than escape, The Drought dramatises a metamorphosis in which vulnerability is confronted through regeneration. Noise and aggression no longer act as an affront to react against but part of a ‘corporeal architecture’ where space, harmony and lyricism surface from the harsh tropes of industrial music. The Drought chronologises a transformation through a psychological famine, new ways of coping akin to plant survival in a desert – to live without drying out. The release is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring art by Torbjørn Rødland @pucemary http://p-a-n.org Genre PAN Comment by mommy complex i feel my eyes tearing up 2023-02-28T23:23:50Z Comment by Deescawa what 2022-07-05T17:14:00Z Comment by ASOA XXX2.55555 <3 2021-02-25T10:12:54Z Comment by E.S Finato 2020-01-17T20:12:57Z Comment by FLEXZiG lofty 2019-04-13T21:47:31Z Comment by ref11 chills 2018-10-04T03:13:16Z Comment by MIKAMINKA great 2018-09-26T19:36:23Z Comment by Lokom very nice track !! love the noise sound 2018-08-22T12:04:51Z Comment by Rebel Versus 🖤 2018-08-18T19:33:48Z Comment by DJ Quesadilla amazing 2018-08-16T18:46:13Z Comment by encymoverflow Extraordinary 2018-08-16T10:31:35Z Comment by couronne de merde OUI 2018-08-12T10:27:13Z Comment by auch uninteressant yes 2018-08-10T20:19:25Z Comment by Cultivated Sound massive 2018-08-09T19:20:59Z Comment by alec pace wooooo 2018-08-09T08:52:44Z Comment by INDEFINIDO :')))) beautiful sadness 2018-08-09T08:48:16Z Comment by INDEFINIDO sublime 2018-08-09T08:45:33Z