Cusp, by Man Rei

Cusp

by Man Rei

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Released by Crash Symbols in 2020: crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/cusp

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of How to unfocus completely, Strassnaps, 'Außerhalb der Zeit' Live Virtual Set (30.08.2020), Cusp, You've Been Expecting All To Be The Same, 26/27, Prima Vista EP, The Drowse or the Age of Constant Fatigue, and 4 more. , and , .

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1.	Witchcraft & Stitchery 02:50	buy track
2.	The Queer That is the Night 03:51	buy track
3.	Same Shirt 03:49	buy track
4.	The Sleeper of... 05:47	buy track
5.	Not a Greeting nor a Question 04:15	buy track
6.	Feverish 04:29	buy track
7.	Itch Itch 04:29	buy track
8.	Eardrum 03:44	buy track
9.	Underwhelming Wish 07:38	buy track

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Released on Crash Symbols in 2020: crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/cusp

"Cusp is a set of witchy lullabies from Estonian experimental recorder Man Rei, aka Kristin Reiman. Their work evokes the sleep that never quite arrives and dreams disturbed by waking worries, flowing between walls of hazy sounds and punches of morphed and pitch-shifted vocals. Finished in 2019, Cusp explores the postmodern fatigue from the overdrive of expected productivity. With most non-vocal sounds built out of urban field recordings, it offers a distinctive meditation on tiredness, exhaustion, and transition.

The first half of the album is more flowing and varied, opening with the slow ritual strains of "Witchcraft and Stitchery" followed by the even more cryptic "The Queer That Is The Night" and "Same Shirt." By contrast, on the second half tracks like "Feverish," "Itch Itch," and "Eardrum" look for reasons behind the fatigue, accompanied by sharper instrumentals and a crisper vocalization. Everything is entangled in a fog of frequencies with no clear division between high and low. There is very little percussion, with most rhythms created by repeating samples."

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released June 26, 2020

Artwork by Kristin Reiman

Layout by Liz Pavlovic
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Released on Crash Symbols in 2020: crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/cusp

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Doer

Apr 2024
Health

Jun 2023
Cusp

Jun 2020
Stranger's Hometown

Mar 2019

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