History Of Heat

by SADAF

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masterjakestudios A psychological unraveling of love-struck anxiety. This stands as a near-perfect demonstration of how to program an album that sounds as if it is slowly piecing itself together as quickly as it is falling apart, sculpted with nonsensical sounds that all make sense in tandem. At no point does it sound like a pastiche of something else. Favorite track: Ditectrice.

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1.	L'Enfer en Pleine Lumière 03:43	buy track
2.	Apparition 04:13	buy track
3.	History Of Heat 03:53	buy track
4.	Animal 03:42	buy track
5.	Perfection 05:18	buy track
6.	Tiny Engine 04:09	buy track
7.	Ditectrice 02:43	buy track
8.	Feed Him 02:30	buy track
9.	The End (War Text) 04:36	buy track
10.	Guttermoon 03:58	buy track
11.	Wrong God 03:08	buy track
12.	Cinéma Vérité 02:14	buy track

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History of Heat is an eroto-intellectual retelling of a love story. It is the scholarship of heat, and the sources of its production in the body: desire, exaltation, anticipation, fear, rage and mourning . It is a fable circulating through the nerves, pumped and distributed by its own mythologies. Through different chapters, we follow the heroine of our story from the initial desire to love, the sensual pull which oscillates between the grotesque and sacred longing of the flesh (‘L’Enfer en pleine lumière’ translates to ‘Hell in plain sight’)...to the sudden ghostlike appearance of the Other (Apparition) as a projection of the dream. We enter into the spiritual, the seeing visions and the blindness of love. ‘Animal’ speaks of instinct, the smell of the beloved, already the deconstruction of the divine back into the realm of the physical. The title track ‘History of heat’ sings the hesitation of love, the precipice of openness and the invitation of the contract: Dance with me... (This is where the metaphoric marriage is forged). In ‘Perfection’, the pressure which keeps the relationship on the pedestal of the absolute stunts and paralyses love. Unrealistic expectations of the self and the other person creates the push and pull of the not wanting what one wants and the fear to get what one has been asking for. ‘Tiny engine’ speaks of mechanical attachment, attachment to the lover as habit, as a second nature, and the call to the other person as a magnet. In ‘Ditectrice’, the madness and the folly of separation spawns war and confusion. It is the violent refusal to live without the other... the pleading with god. ‘Feed him’ follows with resignation and exhaustion. Love has become the beast of burden who eats away at itself insatiably. ‘War text’ brings forth the devastation, the peace treaty and finally the metaphysical Divorce. In ‘Guttermoon’, the vita contemplativa begins, the blood starts to cool, the scene is a ghost town. ‘Wrong god’ similarly winds down as an ode to remorse and mourning. Finally, ‘Cinema Verité’ closes out the album with a mistrust of ‘reality’: the heroine becomes a philosopher, she becomes an artist... did the relationship ever exist or was it a projection “In front of a movie screen” ?

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released July 12, 2019

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History Of Heat

Jul 2019
SHELL EP

Aug 2017
LET IT BURN

Apr 2017
DROWN IT

Mar 2017

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