Variola Vera LP

$22.00

2019
Tesco Organisation ‎– TESCO 132
Limited to 300 copies, includes printed 4C innersleeve.

Track listing:

Vuelos De La Muerte
Born Into Trauma
Chimera Of Conscience
Pathographia
Rat In The Crown
Dusk In A Leech Jar
Storm Puppets
Fondamenta Degli Incurabili

PS enters its third decade of marginal existence with a new full-length album of surrealist industrial—eight inexplicably obscure analog sound sculptures, created using antiquated electronics and obsolescent techniques, juxtaposing dark ambient, power electronics and electroacoustic music.

Titled after the outbreak of smallpox in the 1970s socialist Yugoslavia, unintentionally brought in by the pilgrims returning from a quest for divine illumination, Variola Vera is the soundtrack to the somatic and the metaphysical epidemics steering the human enterprise towards its termination.

Adrift in the sea of narcotic synth textures, discordant recitations, contaminated laboratory noises, misshapen fragments of charlatan sermons, cannibal ceremonies, voices of dying children and speeches of the moribund Eastern Blok dictators, Variola Vera navigates its wayward course amidst the bitter nostalgia, ritualistic fervency, lethargic dejection, and frantic anguish.