Olympic Mess

by Helm

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vladimir milojkovity Poesie Sonore or audio-poetry, confession..... honesty, simply beautiful! The whole album and especially my favourite song/poem.
I am really happy to be able to discover this artist while going to the Boy Harsher concert. Love! Favorite track: 8. Strawberry Chapstick.

julian Luke Younger crafts his finest industrial ambient opus, building a sprawling sound world rich with oozing atmosphere and slow-burning dread. Acrid, explosive, and engrossing metallurgic tone poems. Favorite track: 4. Outerzone 2015.

Stéfan Németh Industrial, electric jolts. Late capitalism existential dread. Quarantined, cordoned off spaces. Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' and Tsukamoto's 'Tetsuo the Iron Man'. Technology fetishism and transhumanism. Favorite track: 4. Outerzone 2015.

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1.	1. Don't Lick The Jacket 02:38	buy track
2.	2. I Exist In A Fog 08:15	buy track
3.	3. Fluid Cloak 04:08	buy track
4.	4. Outerzone 2015 12:14	buy track
5.	5. Often Destroyed 04:26	buy track
6.	6. Olympic Mess 06:15	buy track
7.	7. Sky Wax (London) 06:28	buy track
8.	8. Strawberry Chapstick 04:20	buy track
9.	9. The Evening In Reverse 06:10	buy track
10.	10. Sky Wax (NYC) 02:38	buy track

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London-based experimentalist Luke Younger (a.k.a HELM) returns to PAN with 'Olympic Mess’, a record born of destructive practice, competing desires, and troubled optimism.

Where his previous effort, 2014's 'The Hollow Organ,' dealt in dense, distressed sonics, 'Olympic Mess' is Younger responding to a period spent engaged with loop-based industrial music, dub techno, and balearic disco. These musical references, all of which can induce hypnotic states and feelings of euphoria, inform ten evocative aural landscapes which unfurl over the course of an hour and act almost as a counterpoint to the turmoil that spawned them.

"It's about exploring a perverse desire to pull the rug from under yourself, and the struggle to achieve a healthy equilibrium between one's personal and artistic lives," Younger says. "Dealing with the problematic consequences of pushing your own limits, forming and dissolving relationships, transient lifestyles, physical and mental exhaustion, excess, and other kinds of personal chaos".

Crafted using an array of heavily processed samples, found sound and electroacoustics, personal conflict manifests in "I Exist In A Fog" and "Outerzone 2015," where visceral noise disintegrates into veiled, ambient strata. The disquieting crescendos of "The Evening In Reverse" and "Fluid Cloak" offer no such relief, while the title track and "Don't Lick The Jacket" are mineral, multilayered abstractions twisting around a brittle pulse.

Following a period of extensive touring throughout the States and Europe, which included 20 dates in support of Danish punk group Iceage, 'Olympic Mess' was recorded in London, New York and Berlin by Sean Ragon, Luke Younger and John Hannon.

The album is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, pressed on 140g 2xLP and CD. It features photography by Kim Thue and artwork by Bill Kouligas.

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released June 11, 2015

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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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