Psychonautic Escapism, by The Ephemeron Loop

Psychonautic Escapism

by The Ephemeron Loop

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Slevin Auditory insanity! Love this

reinhold23 I've never heard anything quite like this album. Intricate, intense, beautiful, and distressing. Favorite track: Psychonautic Escapism (Cold Alienation).

François-Xavier HUBERT It seems this world only needs money and war to survive. Here's a much-needed poison. Thank you so much, Miss VR. Thank you. One of the most intense records you're ever likely to hear any year. Favorite track: Trench Through Pink Death.

Eric K Haunting ethereal/whole-bodied grit. Beautiful/abrasive. Organic/synthetic. Light/heavy. As if Ashrae Fax and loveliescrushing combined and pushed the needle into the red like an Avon Terror Corps outfit. Wonderful. Favorite track: Sirencipher Eidolon in Chimeric Photisms (Cascade Xenofluora Entwining).

jtr9000 Incredibly daring, vital stuff. One of the most unique records I've ever heard, in fact. A crushing, neon lit tour-de-force, kind of like the distilled essence of a Gaspar Noé picture transmuted into audio.

Edit: Having had some more time to mull this one over... Miss VR's struggles with selfhood have blossomed into a record with a distinct-yet-malleable identity of its own: musically, visually, lyrically. Authentic expression at an extremely high degree of realisation. 14 well spent years.

James Shearman Gigas fathoms a timeless ocean of luscious sounds, stitched together swathes: part-noise, part-rave, part-insect, part-shimmer, part-ambient - from the chaos of traversing loose leaf litter sounds to the well-structured order of the formicarium - all-seeing, all-knowing, ever-looping ephemeron.

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1.	Psychonautic Escapism (Cold Alienation) 16:10	buy track
2.	Acetoxyhexorchid I (Cluster Phase) 06:33	buy track
3.	Lattice Dysmorphism of Lysothymic Oneiroid Cytoterrain 09:01	buy track
4.	Ultraviolet Circumzenithal Arc 03:33	buy track
5.	Trench Through Pink Death 13:58	buy track
6.	Acetoxyhexorchid II (Dispersed Phase) 07:06	buy track
7.	Sirencipher Eidolon in Chimeric Photisms (Cascade Xenofluora Entwining) 13:12	buy track
8.	Sun Shimmer Repeater 10:52	buy track

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Born from the fractal innerworld of Vymethoxy Redspiders, better known as Urocerus Gigas from Leeds-based xenofeminist crisis energy rock duo Guttersnipe, The Ephemeron Loop's debut is a synaesthetic acid bath that cracks open the doors of perception to reveal a sonic landscape of ineffable beauty, divine femininity and continual transformation. "Psychonautic Escapism" sublimes Guttersnipe's teeth-gnashing spacegrind aesthetic leaving washes of dream pop ambience, dilated speedcore fusillades and shapeshifting psychedelic dub effects. It's an album that lodges itself creatively between Cocteau Twins, Arca, Basic Channel and Napalm Death, lysergically fluxing imperceptibly between seemingly contradictory sonics and philosophies.

Miss VR took 14 long, difficult years to write the album, which developed cautiously as she broke through the misery of her pre-transition life with shoegaze music, rave and psychedelic drugs in Leeds' queer underground. An existence languishing in negativity, soundtracked by extreme music was replaced with the opportunity to experience euphoria, elation and ecstatic freedom, emotions that coalesce sensually on "Psychonautic Escapism". These formative experiences are the album's initial building blocks, assembled between 2007 and 2018 as Miss VR came to grips with her reality as an autistic/ADHD trans woman and the multi-dimensional psychotropic experiences that assisted that realization. And as V's worldview expanded and shifted as she lived a fresh life, the music itself developed spiritually.

In 2018, after being impressed with producer Ross Halden's work with Guttersnipe, Miss VR asked him to assist her with developing The Ephemeron Loop's fragmented songs and visions. "I learned a lot about why people don’t usually combine various kinds of sounds or styles in music," she admits. "It is very difficult to get it to all work together!" But after two-and-a-half years of the duo navigating a "labyrinth of fragmented Reason 5 and Logic projects," re-recording and processing, and working tirelessly on complex arrangements and compositions, they eventually found a light at the end of the tunnel. The finished album is towering and ambitious, Escher-like in its illusory reconstruction of familiar elements into brain-altering forms.

The album begins with 'Psychonautic Escapism (Cold Alienation)', decorating Miss VR’s disembodied moans with throbbing dub techno synths, insectoid digital percussion and disorientating high-BPM electronics. Her vocals hover weightlessly between My Bloody Valentine's Bilinda Butcher and Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser, and on 'Lattice Dysmorphism of Lysothymic Oneiroid Cytoterrain' drift against grinding industrial hardcore kicks, serrated bass and Lorenzo Senni-esque trance pointillism. On 'Trench Through Pink Death', Miss VR’s voice mutates into a shrill scream as she directs the music from splattered free-flowing doom into harsh hyper-speed death metal and breakcore.

Woven together with both precision and delicacy, "Psychonautic Escapism" turns a rough patchwork of ideas, experiences, feelings and vivid emotions into a glorious neon tapestry. In living and exploring the realities of autism, ADHD and trans identity, Vymethoxy Redspiders has masterminded a sonic language that feels fresh, urgent and shockingly honest. Psychedelic is a term that gets thrown around far too loosely at the moment - in this case there's just no better way of describing the album's scope.

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released May 20, 2022

Mastered by Declared Sound
Artwork by Urocerus Gigas

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