Thread Punishment from Threadjacks Unravel by Sparsely

The very tools of oppression become the driving rhythm in this piece. 'Thread Punishment' plunges directly into the heart of the album's central conflict, where the playful spirit of the Threadjacks faces the sharp, undeniable threat of the Loom Keeper’s enforcers. Here, the percussion isn't just manufactured sound; it's the unnerving, staccato snip of supervisors' shears, captured with contact microphones and shaped into polyrhythmic patterns that mirror the frantic evasion tactics of the tiny spirits. That distinctive 'scissor percussion' cuts through everything, establishing a visceral tension that never lets up. Senna Warp's vocals are shattered and scattered, becoming an echoing, fragmented whisper—a deliberate production choice using live granular synthesis to embody the Threadjacks desperately hiding within the sonic shadows of the mill. It’s a track that forces you to feel the existential stakes, the threat of being severed from the very fabric of memory. But amidst the chase and the dissonant harmonium, a defiant energy pulses, especially when those fragmented voices manage to weave together for a brief, powerful moment of rebellion, turning impending erasure into an unexpected source of cunning and strength. This is where the story of the Weave truly tightens.

We started recording in my grandmother's empty farmhouse after finding her old reel-to-reel in the attic. Our vocals float over stretched-out folk melodies that breathe like prairie grass. Sometimes a song lasts three minutes, sometimes fifteen.