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Guillotine Age

by Mother Anxiety

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D.F.
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D.F. This is a genre of music of which I cannot claim to be any kind of expert. Therefore I don't have the best vocabulary to review it.
I'll just say that I love almost every second of it, from the easy listening first track to the harshest noise sections of the heaviest ones. It features a great variety of moods throughout the whole album. Favorite track: The Streets Will Flow With the Blood of Old Money.
sawtongue
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sawtongue Thoroughly enjoyed this album. The art pulled me in, but the combination of harrowing sounds and beautiful passages are quite cathartic. Hard to mesh despair and hope so well, but Mother Anxiety is the one to do it. Favorite track: Guillotine Age.
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Flagburner 04:19
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PRESS:

"I think that’s the primary emotional takeaway from the track for me—the paradoxical combination of a sense of loneliness and a strong feeling of my own connection to the societal narrative I’m a part of and the other people I’m experiencing it with."

Toilet Ov Hell
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"...[A]n album I can only explain via descriptors perhaps uncommon to music reviews–confrontational, vengeful, it doesn’t care what you think, because it’s possessed of purpose and clarity of vision."

NoobHeavy
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"Simply put, Mother Anxiety demonstrates the collision of analogic and digital worlds in an efflorescent and fluent fashion. Posed in a more convoluted sense, it does so by means of blending together an immense amount of genres all the way from drone and noise to glitch and folk, with no stones left unturned in between. You need to hear it to understand what kind of a unique beast Mother Anxiety is, and even then, comprehending it is another thing entirely."

Everything is Noise
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Mother Anxiety is the work of Pacific Northwest multi-instrumentalist and author Ben Serna-Grey. The track of the same name was a musical simulation of a panic attack and opened a gateway for the artist to connect with music in newer, more personal ways. Frustrated and isolated from the classical world he’d previously dedicated his life to, he sought out new methods of expression, gravitating toward electronic forms and jazz and funk bass. He began folding in experience from his classical oboe training along with drone, glitch, IDM, folk, and he continues to add sounds as his arsenal of skills grows. Mother Anxiety doesn’t prescribe to hardline genre definitions, seeking instead to find artistic cohesion through a wide range of juxtaposition.

credits

released November 25, 2022

Ben Serna-Grey: All instruments, composition, lyrics, vocals
Mixed and mastered by Chris H. except for track 6 which was mixed and mastered by Saif Bari of Fixed Mastering
Cover art by Anton Oxenuk
Bird sounds recorded by Ade Swash

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Mother Anxiety Vancouver, Washington

Mother Anxiety is a solo electronic project by author and musician Ben Serna-Grey.

Experimental and intensely personal in form and intent, Mother Anxiety was birthed in an attempt to connect with music in new ways after Ben found himself abandoned and trapped in a liminal space when it came to the classical music world he had dedicated his life to. ... more

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