Wormhook - Workaday Strangeness: Gyrating Death Throes From a Void Axiom - excerpts by Akashic Records published on 2023-01-26T15:11:57Z Wormhook Workaday Strangeness: Gyrating Death Throes From a Void Axiom LP and digital Available here - https://wormhook.bandcamp.com/album/workaday-strangeness-gyrating-death-throes-from-a-void-axiom 'Workaday Strangeness: Gyrating Death Throes From a Void Axiom' is the new LP from Glasgow-based music originator Wormhook. The music therein, we understand, emerged for highly personal therapeutic reasons; nevertheless to describe it as ‘idiosyncratic’ would do a disservice both to Wormhook and to the concept of idiosyncrasy. While the record is certainly a profoundly unique, irreplicable creation, its music is nevertheless based on a visceral, breathing human rhythm which is common to all living bodies. It represents a celebration of the act of creation as a means of processing psychic and spiritual conflict, unconscious thought leading to spontaneous musical discovery. Through something approaching the musical equivalent of automatic writing, Wormhook gives birth to fluid, home-woven spectral incantations and an untutored, backward-masked concrète hymnody. Brittle-as-glass guitar and grainy, hand-processed electronics underpin cantorial, intuitively modal vocals delivering a kind of raw, revelatory yet anti-prophetic ur-poetry, bridging the centuries between Hildegard von Bingen and Lonnie Holley and fixing the solitary star of Wormhook within the hermetic constellation which these visionaries inhabit. - Alasdair Roberts, 2023 Comment by ASOA XXX2.55555 cool sounds 2023-01-29T17:44:44Z