I O Audio 2017 PSYCHAGAINSTCANCER TAPE all profit to the fund

In hindsight, 2017 along with the following EP “I Can Hear The Hiders Coughing” represent a transitional period in the discography of io audio recordings where the droning/live looping approach of the first two albums (2015, 2016) begin to give way to more complex song structures. The studio itself becomes less of a method of documenting a live performance and more of an instrument, allowing for the gradual extinction of synthesizers which in turn were replaced with layers of heavily processed guitar sitting alongside their more traditionally processed brethren. Make no mistake, 2017 did not rid itself entirely of the processes and methods founded in the albums that proceeded it. It’s still very much centered around a love for fuzzed out guitars, perhaps even more than its predecessors if only because there are so much more of them. 2017 is still an album that was constructed in such a way that in theory at least, it could have been played live. It’s just that doing so would have required such technological complexity, not to mention an army of guitarists, that the question became “what’s the point in thinking about playing live anymore?” and by the end of the recording sessions the answer was “there isn’t any.” By the end of this transitional period the path to the future had been written. Gone were any illusions of playing live and instead the creative freedom enabled by leaving that mentality was embraced.However one question still remained. Just how does one wrangle this denser sonic environment into something more spacious and clear? That question remained unanswered up until the release of 2020’s “A Guide To Drowning” and as such the original release of 2017 still bore the aural markings of it’s predecessors: a punk rock-esque strum und drang wherein everything was louder than everything else. This remixed release doesn’t aim to “fix” that so much as provide an alternative viewpoint shaped by the lessons learned over the seven plus years since 2017’s original release. Instead of bludgeoning the listener with the chaos and violence of colliding frequencies, the listener is instead invited to willfully walk inside the space provided and be consumed by the polyphony.Give it a try. Your brain will thank you for it
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