META by Dead Gum

Backwards proudly presents the new full length album of amazing Greek artist DEAD GUM!

"META", Dead Gum’s sophomore studio album, constituted a challenge for its maker. While “GAINER” - its predecessor - hollered for awareness and singularity, this one indulges into multi-layered, ambiguous narratives tracing an impossible duality. With abiding influences that distance him from conspicuous contemporary norms, Panagiotis Spoulos creates a nocturnal, desolate sound collage, invoking a meta-purpose for a/the current status quo.
The public character of the endeavour is almost jostled by the privateness of the overall statement; the invitation thus corresponds to a peek into a baffled brain and a rove around gradual levels of muffled alarm calls and grimy smells. "META" is no post-something. "META" merely stands half foot ahead of absolute nothingness, the true end of it all.

Note to greek buyers: BACKWARDS RECORDS FROM ITALY RELEASES THIS ALBUM AND ALL COPIES ARE SHIPPED FROM THERE. THE LABEL JUST LINKED ITS PAGE TO THE DEAD GUM ACCOUNT, IN ORDER TO HAVE ONE AND ONLY UPLOAD.

Panagiotis Spoulos (Wham Jah, Reverse Mouth, also labelhead of Phase! in Greece), as Dead Gum, mainly uses guitar and voice through minimal effects to create instant songs, psychedelic collages and direct, stripped-down bursts. The music itself –partially improvised but fully psychographic– has anthropocentric characteristics and lo-fi character and flirts with punk, bedroom pop and analog noise.