Label: Akashic Records

光沢の強い特殊なシルク刷りDIYジャケット!!あの謎多き作家の2nd音源が登場!!英グラスゴーより地元作家の秀逸な音源を届けてくれるAkashic Recordsから2020年にカセットデビュー、その1st音源がかなりの話題となった謎作家Wormhookの1st LP作。奇怪なリズムトラックを中心としたアルバムであり、呪文の様な語りと直感的に歌い上げるヴォーカルのミックス、粗く不器用に放たれる演奏&音響の投下等々、全てが全く定まる事の無いミュージックコンクレート+賛美歌の様な印象。歌詞を掲載したインサート付き。









Hand screen printed, tip-on sleeve with original artwork by the artist. Stenciled center stickers and insert all hand assembled and printed in Glasgow.

'Workaday Strangeness: Gyrating Death Throes From a Void Axiom' is the new LP from Glasgow-based music originator Wormhook. The music therein, we understand, emerged for highly personal therapeutic reasons; nevertheless to describe it as ‘idiosyncratic’ would do a disservice both to Wormhook and to the concept of idiosyncrasy. While the record is certainly a profoundly unique, irreplicable creation, its music is nevertheless based on a visceral, breathing human rhythm which is common to all living bodies. It represents a celebration of the act of creation as a means of processing psychic and spiritual conflict, unconscious thought leading to spontaneous musical discovery.

Through something approaching the musical equivalent of automatic writing, Wormhook gives birth to fluid, home-woven spectral incantations and an untutored, backward-masked concrète hymnody. Brittle-as-glass guitar and grainy, hand-processed electronics underpin cantorial, intuitively modal vocals delivering a kind of raw, revelatory yet anti-prophetic ur-poetry, bridging the centuries between Hildegard von Bingen and Lonnie Holley and fixing the solitary star of Wormhook within the hermetic constellation which these visionaries inhabit.