Cold Spring – Colossloth ‘The Harmoney Knife’ CD

“With “The Harmony Knife”, Colossloth is cutting through to the bone and sinew of Man’s chronic, species-specific dissatisfaction, and the causes thereof. He is laying bare humankind’s inability to solve its own, self-created problems, to meet its basic needs, and to achieve even those goals clearly within its reach.

 
Colossloth by Ash Walker 
What is the fundamental nature of the human condition? Is it one of misery and failure in the face of blissful possibility? Is it the contrary unwillingness to accept that we can become fully realised and contented beings through the success of actualised, idiosyncratic, and often basic goals?

In defining and describing The Power Process, the twisted mind of Ted Kaczynski saw mankind’s primal need to struggle for a goal, however small, as necessary for a meaningful life. Indeed, without this elemental piece of the evolutionary struggle, he saw terminal atrophy as the inevitable result.

With “The Harmony Knife”, Colossloth seizes these ideas and sonically extrapolates the implications of humankind’s failure to satisfy even our most rudimentary needs. He creates an auditory landscape examining our repeated inability to focus our efforts on fundamental goals to ensure even a measure of happiness or contentment. Humanity’s inability to live rather than merely exist” (Jake Shell).

• CD in matt-laminate digipak.

Tracks:

1. Transfiguration Manifesto (5:08)
2. In Decay You’ll Find My Name (5:06)
3. The Harmony Knife (10:05)
4. Silhouette In Kerosene (5:09)
5. Interventionists (4:53)
6. Is Survived By (9:57)