Published
Tue, Jun 21, 2011, 15:00
- The Finnish noisemaker goes guitar-heavy on a new LP for Editions Mego.
Mika Vainio, the Finnish experimental artist who sometimes goes by Ø, will release a new album next month called Life (...It Eats You Up).
Vainio has spent much of his career crafting dark and austere electronic pieces, from drone to ambient to stripped back techno. It's a style he developed on his own and in a number of collaborations, including Pan Sonic, his acclaimed duo with Ilpo Väisänen. On Life..., he breaks this pattern a bit by focusing on an instrument that thus far has played only a supporting role in his music: the guitar. Whether used for abstract walls of noise or vaguely rock-ish chords, it's at the center of all ten tracks. As if to drive the point home, one of the songs, "Open Up and Bleed," is a cover of Iggy Pop and the Stooges. But even with this alternative set-up, the album maintains Vainio's usual stark aesthetic.
Life (...It Eats You Up) will be available on CD and double-LP through Austrian avant-garde imprint Editions Mego.
Tracklist
01. In Silence A Scream Takes A Heart
02. Throat
03. Mining
04. Napoleon
05. Open Up And Bleed
06. Crashed
07. And Give Us Our Daily Humiliation
08. Cage
09. Conquering The Solitude
10. A Ravenous Edge
Editions Mego will release Life (...It Eats You Up) on July 26th, 2011.