Ashenspire - HOSTILE ARCHITECTURE (Full Album Official Stream)

Описание: Official stream of the second Ashenspire album "HOSTILE ARCHITECTURE", out July 18th 2022 on Code666/Aural Music.

HOSTILE ARCHITECTURE is a sonic exploration of the ways that subjects under late capitalism are constrained and set in motion via the various structures that uphold stratification and oppression in urban contexts. It is inspired by brutalist, postmodern and utilitarian architectural structures that are found throughout post-industrial cities, hauntological in nature, being designed to provide for the populace through affordable housing but ultimately cost-cutting exercises and unfit for purpose. The term hostile architecture refers to design elements in social spaces that deter the public from using the object for means unintended by the designer, e.g. anti-homeless spikes, which the album presents as emblematic of a foundational contempt for the poor and working class, an exemplification of a status quo fortified in concrete. The album invites the listener to explore the dissonance of these contradictions in their own circumstances and perhaps consider possibilities for a world beyond what Mark Fisher called “Capitalist Realism.”

Purchase/stream HOSTILE ARCHITECTURE on Vinyl/CD/Digital: ashenspire.bandcamp.com

0:00 THE LAW OF ASBESTOS
8:33 BÉTON BRUT
13:52 PLATTENBAU PERSEPHONE PRAXIS
20:40 HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE VISION
23:18 TRAGIC HEROIN
26:33 APATHY AS ARSENIC LETHARGY AS LEAD
31:26 PALIMPSEST
34:33 CABLE STREET AGAIN

Performing on HOSTILE ARCHITECTURE:
Alasdair Dunn - Voice, Drums
Fraser Gordon - Guitars, Backing Voice
Ben Brown - Bass Guitar
James Johnson - Violin, Backing Voice
Matthew Johnson - Saxophone, Backing Voice
Scott McLean - Rhodes, Prepared Piano
Rylan Gleave - Tenor/Bass Voices
Amaya López-Carromero - Soprano/Alto Voices
Otrebor - Hammered Dulcimer

Recorded, produced and mixed by Scott McLean at La Chunky Studios, Glasgow.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege Engineering, Portland OR.
Artwork and Layout by Tobias Holmbeck.

Video shot and edited by Alasdair Dunn in Leith, 2022.