FLESH PRODUCE CHANNEL PSYCHOSIS AND POST-MORTEM DREAD INTO “1040 RPM,” A FIRST TASTE OF THE SEATTLE DUO’S INCOMING “HYPER CHASM” LP
Karl Fagerstrom handed Myla Profitt a beat so relentless she sat on it for two years. Not because it didn’t work – because she couldn’t figure out how to match it. “When Karl first showed me this track I was completely blown away by how utterly hard it went,” Profitt says. “It took me 2 years to write vocals for it because I had no clue how I could add my 2 cents to the chaos or if I could even improve the song.”
What eventually unlocked the track was dying — at least in her head. Profitt wrote the vocals from the perspective of someone freshly dead, suspended in a black void, terrified of what comes next. “I was reflecting on the meaningless things I put on a pedestal through my life like money, people’s admiration, convenience, and influence,” she explains. That headspace pulled heavily from Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void, a film that ended up informing the entire album’s concept — specifically the monologue on The Book of the Dead, the idea of a spirit unable to communicate with the living, drawn toward lights it doesn’t want to follow, the whole thing curdling into a bad trip.
The timing was worse than fiction. Profitt watched the film alone just before slipping into a two-week psychosis triggered by bipolar disorder, complete with her own hallucinations of an afterlife. “If you’ve seen this movie, you can imagine what a terrible idea it was to watch at that time.”
“1040 RPM” is streaming now ahead of “Hyper Chasm,” the duo’s full-length for CorpoRAT Records, due June 5th.
-written by Karol Kaminski / IDIOTEQ
https://fleshproduce.bandcamp.com/album/hyper-chasm-2
| see FLESH PRODUCE live: |
| 05/01 Seattle, WA @ The Landing Strip 05/03 Boise, ID @ Realms 05/07 Kansas City, MO @ Howdy 05/09 Birmingham, AL @ Firehouse 05/23 Denver, CO @ 7th Circle 06/03 Reno, NV @ Holland Project |
| Track Credits: |
| Myla Jane Profitt – vocals, music, lyrics, mixing Karl Ernest Fagerstrom – drums, music Tim Stimpson – mastering |
Flesh Produce‘s inception came in 2018: somewhat frustrated with playing in fairly standard bands, Karl Fagerstrom started making ‘beats’ with no prior experience or rules to follow, simply mimicking (and sampling) the weird music he liked. From there, Karl met Myla Profitt, who would become vocalist.
The DIY duo have a strong creative chemistry and no shortage of musical ideas, with their work being described in terms such as “chaotic, glitchy, breakneck-speed noise punk” and “ambient filth.”
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