Who remembers those early Sunday morning drives home after a long night out on the town, going from early cheap and bad dinner to concert to bar to club? Listening to your favorite Metal, Punk, Electronica or whatever soundtrack? Or maybe all of it together! And then those drives home at 6am were either very quite or one of you was still itching and hyped up and couldn’t keep his hands and body still? The new CARTHAGE single “wholivesinsideofyou?” is the perfect soundtrack for both! Enjoy our premiere of the day!
Let’s start with the teaser video for the track, because having a teaser video of nearly 2,5 minutes means that the whole track is a lot longer and it is - nearly 7,5 minutes! So while you listen to the teaser, you can read our little text:
The song itself combines the melancholy of the relaxed drive home, people lolling away on the backseats, washed out too much to even make out with their partner to them. And it also serves that scratchy need of hitting your fist on the dashboard or the steering wheel, venting out all the youthful energy as you now that the next day, Sunday, is a day of recovery, and then the next week starts again with school, university, or, even worse, your job, this is the longest time you need to get through before that blissful Saturday comes around the bend again. Seldom has a track led me astray so perfectly as this one: At first I was sure it was a good, a bit lo-fi Dreampop kind of thing but then the next part was utter Industrial multi-layered bliss, written and performed by an artist who has been around for long enough to know exactly what he’s doing!
Damian B, one of the brilliant minds behind experimental Metal band khost has had a long-standing business relationship with the godfather of Industrial Dub Metal, Justin K. Broadrick, who has published a lot of the khost material and is also part of this collaborative release between his Avalanche Recordings record and GIVE/TAKE. This is already the third installment of this collaboration after records by Tactical Pagant and KK NULL x Dao De Noise. So one can see that this record by CARTHAGE has a long background story, but please do not mistake this “long” for “boring”, because if I have listened to a record that is surely not boring in these early stages of 2025, then it is Duskdawn for it is so interesting to ‘see’ which new spelled out version of this itchy combination of noisey Electronica and vastly ambient Shoegaze Damian can come up with. The synth passages underneath many of the tracks as well as the dreamy vocals above everything are really lulling so that the contrast between the melancholy and the agitation seems even starker!
As you have now arrived at the end of the text and probably also at the end of the teaser video, you first should order your copy of Duskdawn either from GIVE/TAKE or from Avalanche Recordings. With that you are now fully prepared to take in the whole track, enjoy!
