Gold; Flesh; Dirt, by Pornographic Sunset

Gold; Flesh; Dirt

by Pornographic Sunset

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1.	Self in Solution 03:39	info	buy track
2.	Session with Dr. Michaelson 03:53	info	buy track
3.	pop, funk - Diabolical 02:56	info	buy track

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The past, as has been often said, is prologue. For Pornographic Sunset (a superficially tranquil name with disturbing undertones), debut EP The Bastard Shows His True Colours was exactly that – a prologue to the genre-convention-defying sonic assaults that make up Gold; Flesh; Dirt’s four tracks.
Where The Bastard Shows His True Colours hinted at the band’s musical prowess, this new EP serves to both accentuate and obfuscate through abrupt musical volte-faces that leave the listener confused and disoriented. Comparisons serve little purpose here but, were you to seek kindred spirits, you might tip your hat towards Martin Bisis’s work at B.C. studio (one time home to Sonic Youth, Swans, Cop Shoot Cop and the like); or you might haul out an old copy of C/Z records compilation Teriyaki Asthma and wonder how Pornographic Sunset managed to catapult themselves some thirty years into the future.
At any event, comparisons lack lustre when grinding riffs give way to chicken-pickin’ country grooves via lysergic indie drones, so it’s probably just easier to admit defeat, pick up the EP and play it at neighbour-threatening volume until the ceiling collapses.
Not content with rupturing your eardrums, Pornographic Sunset’s unique proposition in this contemporary era of streaming is a tight knit focus on art to sit alongside the music. Photo sessions presenting the band as disturbed refugees from the capitalist dream go hand in hand with video shoots that excoriate the greed of the neo-liberal fantasy, and you can’t help but feel that there’s a masterplan at work amidst the jazz-infused bass runs and arcing guitar riffs that will become apparent if only you can subvert your whole being in service of the band.
If the world truly does get the media it deserves, then the ravaged remains of the UK both deserve and require the services of Pornographic Sunset. As the band themselves are fond of saying: “it’s just a bad dream”.

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released December 12, 2021

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