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According to the Armed’s guitarist and co-producer Dan Greene, the hardcore collective’s latest album is a “joyous, genderless, post-nihilist, anti-punk, razor-focused take on creating the most intense listener experience possible.” The follow-up to 2018’s
Only Love features assistance from Mark Lanegan, Queens of the Stone Age’s Troy Van Leeuwen, producer Ben Chisholm, and executive producer Kurt Ballou. The famously mysterious group revealed its member lineup for this album in the live video for lead single “All Futures.” –Sam Sodomsky
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In Hayden Anhedöniaâs moody, gothic soundscapes, the ageless persona of Ethel Cain confronts the religion, sex, and violence lurking within the confines of small-town America.
In the earliest forms of Gregorian chant, church singers would scale multiple notes in melismatic syllables. The effect is hypnotic; a single word undulates until its original meaning blends with its soundâin some cases, it was thought to induce a trance-like state in its audience. For Hayden Anhedönia, who performs as an invented persona named Ethel Cain, those consecrated refrains were a part of daily life since childhood. Raised in an insular Southern Baptist community along the Florida panhandle, Anhedönia recalls her mother, with whom she sang in church choir, playing hymns and Gregorian chant CDs while she cooked. On
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