Chemical Flowers

by Helm

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cluster The album cover, in all its strange, mesmerizing beauty, embodies quite well how I feel about the album. These alien, digitally-created objects feel so real and almost tactile by their slightly damaged surfaces.
Every dent and every scratch is where it needs to be.
Favorite track: You Are The Database.

Source Invisible This is such a stunningly beautiful record Favorite track: Toxic Racecourse.

mmoonn I feel like the title of this track is directed at whoever might be listening to it, as it's nearly impossible not to have a (positive?) response Favorite track: I Knew You Would Respond.

Mag delicate, beautiful, intricate album i find myself coming back to again and again Favorite track: I Knew You Would Respond.

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1.	Capital Crisis (New City Loop) 04:02	buy track
2.	I Knew You Would Respond 03:33	buy track
3.	Body Rushes 03:33	buy track
4.	Leave Them All Behind 06:45	buy track
5.	Lizard In Fear 04:00	buy track
6.	Toxic Racecourse 05:32	buy track
7.	You Are The Database 06:15	buy track
8.	Chemical Flowers 04:50	buy track

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Luke Younger returns to PAN with an eight-track album of his most direct work to date. Composed alone at NO studio in the Essex countryside, to start an album with a piece called ‘Capital Crisis (New City Loop)’ seems an intentional misnomer. Long, sustained periods in the rural studio setting see Younger working with an array of fragmented, disassociated sound sources to build upon 2015’s Olympic Mess. It shares a similarly inclined vision of the urban environment, but here Chemical Flowers makes reference to paradoxical notions of authenticity and creative practice by way of questioning the structures around us. Collages are assembled and dismantled, temporal and spatial boundaries fluctuate and movement is an overarching theme.

Surrealist drowned world atmospheres sculpted far enough away from the source of inspiration leave plenty of room for ambiguity. The nocturnal nature of the recording process is self-evident, and pieces like ‘Leave Them All Behind’ tap into a deep psychedelic undercurrent. Confused
narratives, emotions and aleatory hallucinations ebb and flow throughout. ‘I Knew You Would Respond’ evokes murky soundtrack terrain with eerie repetitive strings and ambient respite, disrupted periodically by brief bursts of granular noise. It’s one of the records most unnerving moments, possibly as it’s one of the most recognisably human.

The album navigates dense passages with recurring signifiers. Hollow percussion, modulating delay and curious field recordings come and go, maintaining a perpetual state of flux where nothing stays the same for long. The drowned world theatricals return on the swamp-like ‘Lizard in Fear’ whilst string rhythms creep in on the penultimate track to incite momentary electroacoustic harmony. Floating synthesis slowly washes over and the title track unfolds - five minutes of reverb-laced portamento, visions of decay and Editions EG influenced world-building. Movement is key.

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released May 17, 2019

Chemical Flowers features string parts arranged and recorded by JG Thirlwell (Foetus / Manorexia / Xordox). Additional cello played by Lucinda Chua and saxophone by Karl D’Silva.
The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

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Helm is Luke Younger, a sound artist and experimental musician based in London, working with a vast array of revolving instrumentation and abstract sound sources. Younger’s compositions build dense aural landscapes that incorporate elements of musique concrete and industrial music alongside hallucinatory drones and various acousmatic phenomena. ... more

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