Uboa - The Sky May Be
(c) 2018 Art As Catharsis
Artist....: Uboa
Album.....: The Sky May Be
Source....: WEB/MP3
Tracks....: 8
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Art As Catharsis
Encoder...: LAME 3.100
Quality...: 320 kbps / 441kHz / Full Stereo
URL.......: http://https://www.deezer.com/album/75482672
Tracklist:
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1. Standards of Living 4:20
2. Thigh High Cat Tights 2:40
3. Salivate on Cue 2:24
4. I Can't Love Anymore 4:13
5. The Sky May Be (Dementia) 6:50
6. The Sky May Be (Entropy) 3:00
7. The Sky May Be (Extus) 3:34
8. The Sky May Be (Zenith) 5:38
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32:39
Total:79.89 MB / 32:39
Release Notes:
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"A work about poverty, sex, anxiety and love."
Art As Catharsis is proud to announce the release of UboaÆs The Sky May Be û an
overpowering record that slips between dreamy ambience and nightmarish caverns
of harsh noise.
Drawing elements from the trans-driven noise scene, Xandra MetcalfeÆs work as
Uboa condenses a wider range of influences into a frightening soundscape of its
own. Fans of Purgist, Facialmess, Endon, Locrian, Nurse With Wound, along with
artists on the No Rent and Triangle Records labels will find themselves right at
home with this recording.
ôI only take inspiration from things that immediately affect me,ö says Metcalfe.
ôVarious trans issues that do not get airtime in music in particular - trans
subcultures, transmisogyny/transphobia, medication, passing, sterilisation,
suicide and depression, isolation. A lot of the stuff about mental illness -
depression, psychosis, anxiety etc. - comes directly from my experience as being
trans in a cisnormative society.ö
As the first single off The Sky May Be, Thigh High Cat Tights represents
MetcalfeÆs most terrifying work on the album. Driven by white noise, distortion
and glitched shrieks, the song rampages beyond the realms of tangible before
tunnelling into a monotone plateau of drone. Thigh High Cat Tights is the audio
equivalent of a hellscape for androids û all the while serving as ambassador for
the digital savagery and abrasiveness Uboa is capable of.
ôUboa was originally just for doom, noisy stuff that I did on a whim,ö says
Metcalfe. ôAfterwards I used its anonymity to spread rumours I was a woman well
before I was out, which was funny. It became a little vessel for me to escape
myself at the time. I guess it helps me be myself? Sounds corny but true. That
being said, nowadays I just use it to scare people, which is always fun.ö
The Sky May Be offers a teetering balance between simmering moods and terrifying
electronics. The record rattles with a sense of instability from start to finish
û song structures are freeform and unbound by chorus or verse, harsh elements
attack at random yet land perfectly, and itÆs rare that any single track can be
summed up as solely ambient or noise. The sum of the music is a feeling that
pushes sound and mind to its limits, reaping new forms of terror and weakness as
the seconds pass by.
This unbridled creativity is in a class of its own, unshackled by the boundaries
of genre or traditional construction û itÆs within this freedom that The Sky May
Be sets itself as one of this yearÆs most important releases in Australian harsh
noise.