Deranged flickering tones and gloomy, wailing vocals deepen the mood of things falling apart. That phase of the music is disturbing and distraught. It moves from dreamlike exotic melody and vivid clacking beats into a miasma of searing and moaning tonalities and wild howls. The album opener “ Apocalyptic Lust” is a bit of both - both mesmerizing and calamitous. It also includes bouncing industrial grooves, ginormous detonations, shrill sonic aberrations that sear the flesh, weirdly undulating tones, pinging electronics, and cacophonies of yells and screams. “ Prends Moi Dans Tes Bras“, for example, includes horrifyingly vicious vocals which maniacally come for the throat, and abrasive assaults of scathing riffage. Other songs are more explosively cathartic. The title song might be the most hypnotic track on Death Ataraxia, though it’s a very uneasy kind of spell. Wailing crystalline vocals haunt the music, and an accelerated speaking voice adds to the madness.
#Freaky moods plus#
But those same ingredients, plus a heavy, undulating, lo-frequency presence, also create sensations of brooding, menace, and derangement, and rabid screams and lacerating electronics put nerves on edge. The throb of the bass, the glinting of the guitar, the rhythmic clatter of the drums, and the sheen of the organ-like keyboard provide the seduction. We have another one for you today, a premiere of a fascinating film by Chariot of Black Moth for the new album’s title song, and it also makes a fine companion for the music, which is hallucinatory in both seductive and harrowing ways. Non Serviam‘s videos are no more conventional than the music, and thus (perplexingly) they go very well together.
#Freaky moods full#
Three of those songs have been released in advance of the full album - “ Mortrien“, “ Apocalyptic Lust“, and “ Prends Moi Dans Tes Bras” - and each of those was accompanied by a music video. Goals like embracing those who need support when we can, (furiously) seizing the opportunities for rapture when they present themselves (no matter how fleeting), or just letting your head spin away from the ugliness of the real into the very un-real.Īnother way to put it is that in listening to Death Ataraxia you’ll find times when you might want to sway and bounce, or to let your mind wander in intriguing but dangerous dreamscapes, but plenty of other times that might make you want to put your head back and howl, or hurl yourself like a missile into violent collisions, or feel your brain spin (dazzled) through a kaleidoscopic sonic collage where nightmares thrive.ĭeath Ataraxia, which is set for release tomorrow ( June 2nd), is labeled a “Mini-Album” on its Bandcamp page, but as you’ll discover through our full streaming premiere today, it’s 54 minutes long, encompassing 8 songs, each of which ends exactly on the minute.
In the midst of superheated resistance there seem to be goals beyond not surrendering or becoming complacent, beyond furiously swinging the wrecking ball at what confines our bodies and minds. Yet it would go to far to brand the music, or what inspires it, as nihilistic, even if sometimes it sounds ruinous or hopeless. But what inspires the music is also confrontational, an anarchist and antifascist ethos that condemns the abuses of capitalism and hate-mongering directed against the least powerful among us. It has the effect of getting in the face of listeners and shoving them out of comfort zones and off-balance, teetering but fueled. You would conclude that the music on their new album Death Ataraxia is confrontational even if you didn’t know what inspires it.
Their music is about catharsis and confrontation, and to extend the alliteration, it can be confounding - because it goes where the creators’ passions and wild inmventiveness take it, outward into the world from a burning inner core of rage. Not so long ago we wrote here that while many musical extremists add new layers of brick and mortar to old walls surrounding well-established genre structures, the anonymous Parisian duo Non Serviam take a wrecking ball to genre walls.
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