This Body is a House

RIYL: Laurie Anderson, Ellen Zweig, Dry Cleaning

Formed from Allison’s headspinning, depth-mining production for synthesis, field recording, and acoustic instrumentation, and DeSchutter’s lysergic and prophetic spoken word, the palette of This House is a Body can turn on a dime from claustrophobia and dread to hyperreal dream sequence, illuminated in sunstreamed glory in places and dripping with basement effluvia in others. Throughout, words, meaning, and imagery all dissolve into an architecture of alternately familiar and unknowable sound. LISTEN

“Sets itself adrift down a stream of caustic consciousness, scattered with angular detritus and protruding sonic clutter…DeSchutter’s spoken word additions skip across the surface like a tossed stone.”
The Wire

“The combination of electronics, field recordings and poetry are simultaneously vivid…Digs at the very essence of communication, a schematic of something unknown that can only be conveyed through allusion.”
The Quietus