Split Open by Frasque Oblige

Debut album by Frasque Oblige

"With Split Open, Shird Leopart introduces Frasque Oblige, a solo project that feels less like a debut album than a document — a captured eruption. Recorded as a single, raw studio session with zero overdubs, the record embraces constraint as a creative weapon. What emerges is a tense, physical form of electronic metal: abrasive, minimal, and strangely ritualistic.

The entire setup is deliberately stripped down. A toy synth, the Casio ML-1, is pushed through distortion, then carved and disciplined by the filters of a Yamaha CS-01. A Korg Lambda occasionally drifts in, laying distant, ghostly pads that hover like industrial fog. Everything is captured through a one-track looper, giving the five instrumental pieces a sense of irreversible motion — once a layer is laid down, it cannot be corrected, only endured or transformed.

This process gives Split Open its defining tension. The music sits somewhere between post-synth punk, early industrial minimalism, and a metallic form of live electronic performance. Rhythms lurch rather than groove; melodies emerge accidentally, then erode. Distortion is not decorative here — it’s structural. The sound feels pressurized, unstable, as if constantly on the verge of collapsing inward.

Despite its harshness, the album has a stark coherence. Each track functions like a different angle on the same fracture: repetition as insistence, noise as articulation, limitation as identity. There is no narrative, no vocals, no relief — only momentum and texture.

The artwork reinforces this cryptic approach. Based on a piece of 1960s algebraic graphics, détournéd into an abstract emblem, the cover functions like a sigil rather than an illustration. It mirrors the music’s logic: cold, encoded, and oddly symbolic, suggesting a system whose meaning must be felt rather than decoded.

Split Open is not polished, and it does not want to be. It documents a moment of friction between machine, gesture, and constraint. In doing so, Frasque Oblige delivers a debut that feels both primitive and conceptually sharp — a raw signal broadcast from the edge where synth punk hardens into metal."

> Oblique Sounds, 2025

Tracklist

1.	Brainshake	7:18

2.	Translucent Abyss	8:21

3.	Gone From Mayhem	10:17

4.	Équilibre De La Terreur	7:13

5.	Senseless Chant By Silent Troops	13:24

Credits

released December 28, 2025

Composed, engineered & produced by Shird Leopart

Performing : Behringer SF-300 & UT-300, Boss RC-3, Casio ML-1, Korg Lambda ES-50 & Monotron Delay, Syntrillium CEP 2.1, Yamaha CS-01

Improvised in one take at Q-Scared in September, 13th 2025
Edited & mastered the next hour
Play it wide, loud & all alone

Design by Shird

© Self-Sufficient Records 2025

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