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Whiteout

by phal:angst

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Whiteout 07:53
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2.
Severance 06:47
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3.
Least Said, Soonest Mended 08:02
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4.
What Rests Mute In Bright Corners 07:54
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5.
Unhinged 08:10
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6.
What A Time To Be Alive 12:00
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Unhinged (Lustmord Version) 08:16
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A Tale Of Severance (Jarboe Remix) 06:48
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Phal:Angst from Vienna have been following their vision of electronic Industrial and analog Post Rock for 16 years now, and they have been doing so consistently, while also joyfully embracing self-development.

The new and already 5th album has been made with even more care and effort. For five months the band and a team consisting of Alexandr Vatagin (Engineer for Kronos Quartett, Pauls Jets, Dives, Electric Indigo), Gerhard Potuznik (GD Luxxe, Mäuse, co-owner of label Angelika Köhlermann, producer of Chicks On Speed), Alexander Lausch (Engineer for Die Buben Im Pelz, Paul Plut, Mynth, The New Mourning) and Tobias Wöhrer (Leyya) was involved in producing, consulting, recording, mixing and mastering.

Remixes were made by Industrial/Dark Ambient icons Brian Williams aka LUSTMORD (Current 93, Nurse With Wound, SPK, Graeme Revell, Terror Against Terror, First Reformed) and JARBOE (The Swans), two musicians who have had a fundamental impact on the band’s work.

Phal:Angst originate from the DIY Punk/Hardcore scene of the late 90ies and early 2000s, and have deviated from there just soundwise: besides all aspects of music, organisation and publication they have always had the digital infrastructure under their control as well. During the late 90ies leftist netculture activism Angst, the band’s electronics musician, founded the web-platform med-user.net. Thus he provides an alternative, non-commercial digital free space which has been popular among protagonists of the Austrian autonomous and DIY scene. With Phal:Angst, everything is political – without being banal or on the nose. Especially technical progress and music. This hasn’t changed since the band’s emergence within the anarchist scenes.

For the very first time the coming album will not be published on the own label, but together with Noise Appeal Records. This is a consistent development, as the label owners are old friends from the DIY Punk/Hardcore scene who have also advanced their taste in music significantly.

The artwork was designed using photos by Kurt Prinz. These pictures were partly featured in the book Sezierte Architektur (dissected architecture), which was the initial release of Text/Rahmen publishing house. Again, another connection to Noise Appeal Records and old friends from the scene.

The music on Whiteout bears the hallmarks of the very individualistic, if not idiosyncratic band. There are no songs in the classical meaning of the word, instead there are gooey, cinematographic sound epics which meander through various moods. These are frequently dystopic, melancholic, but also hyperharmonic with a distinct tendency to romanticism.
This time, distorted eruptions of rage have been reduced in favour of even more reverbed Southern Gothic, dulcet metallophone, subtle Dub tendencies and repetitive vocal samples with stomping beats in slow motion.
This requires patience, tranquility and attention from the listeners. And possibly mental resilience, when the last track’s repetitive line “So also ist das Sterben” (So this is what it’s like to die) carries the listener beyond the realm of the living on a crescendo of noise and harmony. One should be able to engage in this. To be rewarded with the full relish of Phal:Angst’s magic.

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released January 13, 2023

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Phal:Angst from Vienna have been following their vision of electronic Industrial and analog Post Rock for 16 years now, and they have been doing so consistently, while also joyfully embracing self-development.

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