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Mar 29, 2017As listeners lose more of themselves, their fleshy armour useless in the face of absolute desolation, Contact rewards them with the knowledge of what wicked horrors they can endure. It's the bad head-trip we need to truly understand ourselves.
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Mar 29, 2017Though the message in all the static and clanking chains isn’t humanist, there is a humanity that comes through in everything she does. There is a spirituality too, though it’s the kind that is rooted in the material world.
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May 12, 2017Contact is aggregated purge and celebration past the self, flesh seared back and stomp soldered to somnambulism.
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Apr 28, 2017Chardiet's presence on the album is so commanding, however, that you can almost feel her reaching out to you from beyond the recording. It'll shake you up, no matter what.
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Apr 11, 2017This record is better placed alongside, rather than in opposition to, Chardiet’s prior two releases. It’s another excellent entry in her catalogue of searingly distressing, and physically exhausting, noise.
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Mar 29, 2017Chardiet has created a rare thing here: a noise album that offers hope, rather than simply confrontation.
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Mar 30, 2017The music hammers with industrial heft, vibrates with nervous pulse, and envelops with tactile atmosphere. Even when her songs achieve moments of transcendence, they still strike you directly in the gut.
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Apr 4, 2017This is also the most varied Pharmakon album to date, bringing insistent rhythms closer to the fore more than on previous efforts. Not for the faint of heart, but maybe you're looking to leave your heart with the rest of your body, anyway.
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Mar 31, 2017Like all things Pharmakon, Contact is a challenge, but a worthwhile one.
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The WireJun 2, 2017Contact may be more consistent than earlier albums, but some of the edges have been filed down and some of the physical intimacy that had such an impact by virtue of being too close for comfort is dialled down. [Apr 2017, p.47]
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Apr 3, 2017Though not as conceptually absorbing as Bestial Burden, Contact is a no less challenging effort that seeks to find some kind of understanding from its listeners.
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Mar 29, 2017As grim and hopeless as the album may seem, it's ultimately about escaping day-to-day reality and entering a state of transcendence. It's startling and uncomfortable, but it's highly compelling.
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Mar 30, 2017Contact just finds a way to pull it off without sounding like she’s on the verge of collapsing--which, for the sake of everyone’s well-being, is a surprisingly good meeting point. There’s just a small space left unused that finds listeners wanting more.
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