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Hag Lore extended cut on Hard Return
An abbridged version of the song 'Hag Lore' appears on my new album Ghost Bros OST, but now you can fest on an extended cut thanks to HARD RETURN!!!
"If the original, six-minute cut of βHag Loreβ situates the listener inside a labyrinthine cave network, this extended version posits the prospect of never getting out. At this duration the bass drone adopts a thick gravitational drag, murmuring in some sort of core-born morbid siren summoning, while all manner of soft hallucinations thicken across the upper frequencies: cruelly imagined shafts of escape-route moonlight, glinting rescue team torches. These phantoms start to melt from the moment they materialise, leaving the listener with the corporeal mainstays of twitching static and tumbles of synth detritus. Itβs an environment both spacious and smothering β a gradual diminishment of both sensory input and survival optimism."
Split with Chuck Bettis coming soon!
Coming soon! This magical friendship split between Chuck Bettis and myself has been in the works for a good long while and it's finally going to be a real tangible tape at the end of August! This will be a limited edition of 50 tapes released on Eat My Shit Records. You can pre-order physical copies from me or Chuck via our respective bandcamp pages.
Ghost Bros OST in Wire Magazine!
"Trigger Object is the new moniker adopted by Veronica 'Vern' Avola, and their latest release is a set of metaphysical sonic oddities inspired by the artist's love of ghost hunting reality TV shows. On Ghost Bros OST Avola relishes taking things to playful, noisy extremes with acrid atmospherics, creepy unidentifiable clangs and clunks, and oodles of goopy, pungent distortion. The ghost hunting theme is playfully explored on "Trailer Squatting Arsonist", a slow burning horror show that
begins in hesitant, clunking rhythms and ends with a screaming, hissing wall of noise."Chaos Control" is all flashing lamps, trembling side tables and EMF readers going batshit.On "Zero4 Champ DooZy-J" Avola immolates shifty synths in stinging distortion with what feels like a twisted sense of glee. Of the more rhythmically hectic tracks, "Ghost Bros Theme" and "Dunk Chud" are wonderfully crunchy and kinetic, and "My Facts Don't Care About Your Feelings" is a juddering racket of blunt force fun. The album closes with appropriately haunted epilogue "Hag Lore", full of insidious ambience and shivering revulsion."
Wire Magazine Issue 485, July 2024
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