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Primitive Struggle
Pharmakon

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Content warning: this track is extremely distressing to listen to. I'm not fucking kidding.

The singer of a previous entry called that song's album "barely music," but no: this is barely music. It comes in the middle of the onslaught of electronics, noise and harsh vocals that makes up Bestial Burden and is somehow still the most horrible, agonizing two minutes on it: basically someone having some kind of digestive/respiratory fit over a noxious beat and slowly swelling noise. It is the sound of someone emphatically not Loving The House They're In.

I don't "like" this but it is kind of amazing that (a) it feels somehow appropriate to the album it's on and (b) the artist Margaret Chardiet managed to make it even worse, more claustrophobic and suffocating, with a light frisson of "instrumentation." Every time I listen to this I'm shocked anew at how upsetting it is. Unforgettable.

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