8 Tips For Full Catastrophe Living - Vinyle Magenta

Description

With "8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living," the multi-instrumentalist and producer from Providence delivers a radical and abundant album, halfway between a self-help manual and a chronicle of self-destruction. Combining doom metal, bossa nova, psychedelic pop, and industrial techno in a single gesture, Asher White deconstructs the song form like one dismantles an unfinished statue – an image she uses on the cover, where the Statue of Liberty appears in pieces. Sixteen independent albums and now signed with Joyful Noise, White continues her intuitive sonic exploration, which she compares more to hip-hop sampling or musique concrète than to classical pop. A writer, painter, and sculptor, she weaves texts between fiction and autobiography, nourished by her literary (Clarice Lispector, Eve Babitz) and cinematic (Claire Denis) obsessions. Mixed by Seth Manchester (Battles, Lightning Bolt), "8 Tips" is a striking album that embraces the confusion of the contemporary world with overflowing vitality. A manifesto for living, creating, and collapsing fully — even if it means starting over differently. Magenta vinyl edition.