hello! today we proudly present our second tape release: meet Stpocold and check at your own risk and peril ‘What Was Inside’.
https://nenrecs.bandcamp.com/album/what-was-inside
http://soundcloud.com/nenrecs/sets/stpocold-what-was-inside
Stpocold is a project by Novosibirsk artist Swill Klitch, who also operates under monikers Indu Mezu and Instant Movie Combinations and manages Cold Graey label. First album of the project (much more brutal in sound) was released on this very label back in 2007 .
Quote by unfairly forgotten culture researcher Bela Rose serves as an epigraph to 'What Was Inside’. It declares radical uniqueness of personal experience. This uniqueness has direct relevance to Swill Klitch’s music. Although stylistic references of Stopcold are quiet obvious (angst pop in the vein of Galakthorrö and Beläten production), music is free from genre cliches. Yet it is soaked with all absorbing strangeness, twistedness of personal handwriting aligned with its own, self-made copy-books.
As Swill Klitch points out, 'What Was Inside’ is a story of inner mental transformations provoked by the loss of reference point. In this situation emotions twinkle and flicker, causing pain, joy, both at once. So it is in music: familiar elements encounter in unfamiliar combinations, and they seem not to recognize each other. Ferocious noise sounds almost ironic, absurd appears through solemn declamation. In spite of paradoxical nature of these encounters, they do not provoke disorder. Stpocold’s music has weird integrity, and this integrity is like a promise that one can never attain any reference point without losing it.
Mastered by Арнольд Шапиро. Photos by Polina Vrublevskaya.
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