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01. Silent Servant - Illusion
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02. Silent Servant - Harm In Hand
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03. Silent Servant - Damage
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04. Silent Servant - Loss Response
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05. Silent Servant - 24 Hours
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06. Silent Servant - Glass Veil
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07. Silent Servant - Optimistic Decay
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08. Silent Servant - Death of Decadence*
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ARTIST
SILENT SERVANT
TITLE
Shadows of Death and Desire
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS
CATALOG #
HOS 613CD
HOS 613CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
12/7/2018
Silent Servant
returns with
Shadows of Death and Desire
. Now-legendary producer, DJ, and art director
Juan Mendez
arguably reset techno at least twice. Once with his surreal and Europe-by-way-of-LA '80s apocalypse culture aesthetics for
Sandwell District
, and again as
Silent Servant
capturing the youth-driven mutation of crossover electronics and dark parties churning in the American underground, which followed directly in the wake of his game-changing modern classic,
Negative Fascination
(2012). Mendez has evolved to more aggressive and stripped-down acid punk electro dance attacks
Shadows of Death and Desire
. Mendez took his time to deliver a more raw --yet refined-- brutalism on this, his second album. The otherworldly guitar feedback of opener "Illusion" is cut short with a relentless bass sequence erasing any preconceptions of softening with time. Stereo-panned dusty snares drag along concrete and break apart with without a past or future. The introductory hypnotic sprawl is hastily dissected and left behind for the systematic tension of single "Harm In Hand." Cold drum machine rolls that could have been removed with a laser from early
Ministry
are offset with a vocal delivery not felt in techno since
Suicide
. The narrative is constantly disrupted by caustic guitar stabs, its naked urgency like slamming on the brakes while inertia thrusts you forward in space but decidedly not in time. In his own words, "The record is a product of a significant life change that wasn't a benefit," which is eerily felt from the start but is surprisingly washed away with album closer, "Optimistic Decay" (which has become a mission statement from Mendez's visual ideology). "Optimistic Decay" sees Mendez reuniting with vocalist
Camella Lobo
(
Tropic Of Cancer
). Lobo's voice rises from spectral vocal delays beyond dub. A subtle nod to Silent Servant's initial
Maurizio
-leaning EPs but with the grandiosity and opioid slow-motion haze of
My Bloody Valentine
. Also a student of cinematic deconstruction, the album looks inward from the exterior of LA's untold stories in the netherworlds on the edge of the city, a rapid crash course in confidence games and subsequent letdowns.
Shadows of Death and Desire
sets the standard in electronic post-punk. Mixed and mastered by
Josh Eustis
. Designed by
Silent Editions
.
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