OA092: Sean Addicott - Destroyertones
“A solitudinal; a head cloud of starlings murmur the songs cloaked amplifiers sing, blissed and burned, in this sidechain ouroboros.
Immortal fire of individual will, fanned to flaming with love, unheeding the storm-blasts will walk together.”*
Destroyertones is a bodywork of which explores catharsis through ritual isolation, loneliness, and the importance of growth and change. Sonically, the work pushes ambient speaker heat into noise, balancing lightness with crushing weight, growing from a semi-sinusoidal drone to a palisade of noise, harmony, and sub-bass.
‘Ritual’ composed January of 2018, recorded March of 2020 in my parents bedroom.
‘Voltairine’ composed February of 2013 with the help of Alex Wiesner in the basement of Handbills House, reworked and remixed March of 2022 in my parents bedroom.
All photgraphy by Claire Addicott.
Further project associated visual abstractions by Cressida Williams and Rory Joseph.
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at the Black Knoll.
Thank you to everyone that supported, gave feedback, and kept me grounded during the (re)making of this record.
Thank you to Voltairine de Cleyre for the inspiration and poetry(*).
Fucking Destroyertones.
For digital download, please head to the artist’s Bandcamp page:
seanaddicott.bandcamp.com/album/destroyertones
released July 11, 2022