Lurking just at the edge of the shadows for over a decade, Milwaukee’s
Climax Denial has been honing his brand of psychosexual, obsessive and
fetish driven power electronics across a broad spectrum of tape, vinyl
and CD releases on labels such as Urashima, Hospital Productions, Nil By
Mouth, among others.
It seemed only natural that he would eventually
find a home on Malignant for his second full length CD recording, though
compared to some of the prior releases, this is perhaps one of the most
restrained and refined.
And yet, even within a more atmospheric realm,
Dehumanizing Environments is about as unnerving and depravity filled as
anything Climax Denial has recorded; 4 lengthy tracks of nihilistic
pulsations and glassy drones that build to Penderecki levels of dread
and tension, registering feelings of claustrophobia and desperate
voyeurism as exploratory tones and slow, throbbing synth textures come
eerily forth.
You’re fully immersed by the time vocals finally make an
appearance late on track 3, and the soft whispers remind you, there’s
someone behind the wall at all times, watching with prying eyes and
waiting with baited breath.
A firmly cohesive and intensive release that
circumnavigates the normal trappings of sexually themed power
electronics genre and represents a unique and frightening vision only
Climax Denial can deliver.
Six panel digipak with outstanding
illustrations and design by Andre Coelho.
Mastered by John Stillings of
Steel Hook Audio.
Tracklist:
1 The Womb As Vestibule 12:58
2 Fingering Dead Ashes As Evidence 9:27
3 Environments For Paranoid Necrotic Masturbation 13:46
4 Morning Following Dried Blood 10:31
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