The Drought, by Puce Mary

The Drought

by Puce Mary

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ronnie dion every time i listen to this album i like it even more than before.

hamburgerlobster This is one of my favorite albums of the decade. Favorite track: To Possess Is To Be In Control.

𖤐 truly a beautiful display of relentless auditory abuse & luscious, cinematic soundscapes that permeate throughout my entire body. // xx Favorite track: To Possess Is To Be In Control.

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1.	Dissolve 02:30	buy track
2.	A Feast Before The Drought 06:44	buy track
3.	To Possess Is To Be In Control 05:31	buy track
4.	Fragments Of A Lily 04:21	buy track
5.	Red Desert 03:23	buy track
6.	Coagulate 02:55	buy track
7.	The Size Of Our Desires 07:21	buy track
8.	The Transformation 06:47	buy track
9.	Slouching Uphill 04:41	buy track

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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 album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring cover art by Torbjørn Rødland.

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released October 5, 2018

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Puce Mary Copenhagen, Denmark

Puce Mary (PAN, Posh Isolation)
is the solo moniker of Danish born experimental sound artist, Frederikke Hoffmeier.
With a long career in experimental music, countless releases, performances and collaborations,
many of which have been connected to label Posh Isolation, Puce Mary has reached wide acclaim for their powerful and unique blend of modern industrial and noise music. ... more

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