Distraxi by Distraxi
DISTRAXI’s self-titled release on Brachliegen is a statement of intent from Alina Church. Dissociation, rage, regret, and ideation put onto tape, ‘for better or worse’. Working through the medium of what the artist describes as ‘ecstatic pain castration’, Distraxi follows up recent releases for Hard Return, Bent Window & Mima Kass with an eponymous album of dense soundscapes which range from melancholic dark ambient to blistering harsh noise.
Calling to mind the clinical dissection of power electronics by Himukult, the synth soundscapes of Prurient’s 2010s material and the blown-out sonic desiccation of Secret Boyfriend, the queen of pain electronics delivers an introspective collection of cathartic exhumations and expulsions.
DISTRAXI melds granite drums, helicopter drones, sharp arpeggiations and harsh swathes of feedback with the exteriorisation of a lifetime of dissociation through caustic vocal exorcisms. Ranging from ecstasy to despair, noise bursts like blisters on a fresh graft across six tracks of frenzied heavy electronics. The fragile borders between interiority and exteriority are decimated in this highly personal collection of recordings, as DISTRAXI stands at the precipice to the void and faces it head on.
Extends over every aspect
Suffers in every part
There is something in you
An illumination you cannot turn off
However much you wish to
However much you try
- ‘Extension’, Distraxi
Tracklist
| 1. | Extension | 3:38 |
| 2. | Precipice | 8:40 |
| 3. | It Hurts So Much | 2:27 |
| 4. | Slow Crawl Through Time | 5:40 |
| 5. | Heaven Absorbs | 11:56 |
| 6. | I Can't Save You | 8:28 |
