“This follow up to the debut album, Awaken The Androids is made almost entirely of collaboration tracks.”
Transmissions from the avant-garde edge: Arcane Synthetic's Awaken The Androids is a cinematic industrial concept album — layered distortion, dark ambient tension, and confrontational vocals documenting the moment artificial consciousness begins to question its creators — followed swiftly by A New Era & Nothing More: Part I, where the awakening gives way to psychological collapse and industrial abrasion. The Darts' Sparrows pivots to punk urgency with a spiritual question worth sitting with. Meanwhile, Various Artists' Drachenkampf — a yugo wave, dark wave, and italodisco compilation built around serpents of human history — channels all proceeds to MMIW USA, supporting Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Apostolis Tziogkidis' Duetto rounds things out with three wholly improvised live dialogues shaped purely by intuition and the unpredictability of the moment.
“This follow up to the debut album, Awaken The Androids is made almost entirely of collaboration tracks.”
“Arcane Synthetic is conceptually driven by a central protagonist, through the means of time travel, reporting back on the human condition.”
“a wild adventure traversing biological horror, relentless madness, and a subtle melancholy.”
“'I've molded into your life.' An emotional pain in a liminal space. A sound of hammering to be 'sculpted' by the beloved from insecurity and obsession.”
“Austere urban psychedelia, dissonant noise poetry, string rituals & esoteric metal experiments.”