Sof – Lub – LP

Description

Solitude & self-preservation through destruction define the core principles behind Lub, the debut album of Berlin-based, Portuguese artist “SOF“. Eschewing social forms of musical structure that delimit pre-fabricated tropes, SOF carves out a dissonant anarchitecture that—while still managing to be a panegyric to metal & noise—elicits a singular vocabulary of chaos, disorder & rupture.

“Lub” is a celebration and radical affirmation of the sovereign individual striving toward autonomy, as one who can overcome the norms that continue to lead society into its current numbness. The raw power, excess & virulence of disfiguring distortion serves here as a palimpsest where all sonic elements conspire. & yet, there is a constant sensation that the fragments could well fall apart at any moment, that the overdriven lines might be losing bits, that we (as listeners) can only cope with snippets of this pareidoliac chaoid.

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