ARTIST.....: Scott Hardware
TITLE......: Engel
LABEL......: Telephone Explosion
GENRE......: Rock
RIP DATE...: 2020-04-03
RETAIL DATE: 2020-04-03
RUNTIME....: 35:45
SIZE.......: 82,53 MB
QUALITY....: 320Kbps 44.1kHz
ENCODER/CODEC: LAME - MP3 (MPEG-2 AUDIO LAYER 3)
URL........: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bnteccsgrn7lda572g2dmby33nq
Track List:
01. Intro 3:50
02. Millionaire (feat. Deidre Nox) 4:30
03. Blu Again 3:32
04. Joy 3:47
05. Engel 4:17
06. Left Hand 3:15
07. Bound Together 6:39
08. Survivors Guilt (feat. Deidre Nox) 5:55
Release Notes:
https://telephoneexplosion.bandcamp.com/album/engel
"On April 3, 2020, Toronto's Scott Hardware will be
releasing Engel, his second full-length album, and first
on Telephone Explosion Records. It will mark the end of
a three-year process of writing, recording and letting
down his guard (for better or worse.) His last album,
2016's Mutate, Repeat, Infinity, was the culmination of
a years-long obsession with the HIV/AIDS crisis and how
it was shaped by capitalism. Hardware's early years
after coming out were shaped by the courage of people
close to him who were dealing with difficult diagnoses.
'Looking at these situations from a macro/societal lens
must have been the only way I could process and share
those years of my life and my loved ones' lives with an
audience' Hardware recalls. 'From a writing and
production standpoint, I was trying to re-imagine
various eras of dance music and sound as urgent and
vital as they would have in their heyday of the '80s and
'90s.' Within a year of moving back (to Toronto) from
Berlin, Scott watched Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire and
was immediately filled with its inherent curiosity. The
film, in short, follows angels around pre-unification
Berlin as they listen to the thoughts of the mortals
they are surrounded by. 'I sought with this album to
capture the film's velvety feeling -- in turns funny,
depressing, dark and mundane -- in LP form' Hardware
says. 'These songs imagine Wenders' angels buzzing
around my friends, my family and I. Writing from their
point of view allowed me unfettered access to my own
thoughts about them and myself.' Engel's cover art is
adorned by an image by artist Chris Curreri called the
Insomniac. Curreri's work winks and nods to queer sex,
emotionality and darkness, and this piece is no
different. This is work that reaches back to queer
artists such as Francis Bacon and brings back with it a
timeless everyday horror faced by queers: shame. These
are artists who visualize monsters and demons hiding in
plain sight. Like singing to dead queer ancestors on
Mutate, Repeat, Infinity, Hardware is trying to make
sense of another queer cross-to-bear, this time coming
from within. The image is gory and difficult, not unlike
the process of digging shame from one's spirit. Engel,
in its preoccupation with angels, the afterlife and
private thoughts holds hands with the image."