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(Click here for a short piece by Dry Eyes on why you should listen to Dried Foxglove)
Dried Foxglove is an unusual project that would not be possible without the Internet, email, and computer software that allows one to work on files created by someone on the other side of the world. Indeed, Dry Eyes is a schizophrenic noise musician, and diigitae is a schizophrenic noise musician, but in order to combine their artistic powers to create something truly fucked up, modern technology is necessary.
diigitae and Dry Eyes decided that they would make a full-length album based on Psychiatric Surgery (which is the name of the album) and three tracks would be made, and each would remix the three tracks to their liking. Unethical psychiatric practices abound now, but they are nothing compared to what people went through in the past, and the harshness of the noise, the incessant ignorance pounding a hole in your skull (an actual practice, called Trepanation) is almost like a eulogy screamed by madmen for the victims of these practices.
Here is an embedded Bandcamp player of the album. Buy it!
diigitae’s insistence on fucking up language, visual art, and sound art with the help of Dry Eyes created the destructive and rebellious album ACAB (or “All Cops Are Bastards”), which is an EP of songs that could be, through some stretching of the imagination, made into songs that negate authority, order, the universe, and perhaps life itself.
The first track is a perverse piece of sound art, using real samples of anal sex to strange effect. The second is called Vulcan’s Hammer and is based on Philip K. Dick’s prophetic book about artificial intelligence run amok (and of course, out of the control of law enforcement). The third is a track called Diigital Fighter and only diigitae knows why it is called that. Perhaps a homage to video games? The fourth track, called Jormungandr, is a homage to the world serpent from Norse legend. Is something devouring its own tail in your brain? Do you want to destroy yourself or really, everything deep down? Listen to this. The fifth track is called Happiness in Slavery, which is NOT a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song but IS inspired by the same preface named Happiness in Slavery from the erotic book Story of O.
Here’s a Bandcamp player of the EP. Buy it!
Overall, Dried Foxglove is a train-wreck created by mentally ill individuals trying to express extreme feelings and emotions that I’m sure one could get pleasure from immersing themselves in. The noise is good, in that it sounds interesting, for sure, so why not have yourself a Dried Foxglove album?