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Summer Ghost Builds a New Relationship Between Beauty and Destruction with "Catechism/Muzzle"

Music that can best be described in associative feelings and imagery rather than adjectives, like watching a natural disaster in slow motion or seeing the earth explode from space.

In a recent interview with The Quietus, Grimes' Claire Boucher talks about how hard it is to actually talk about music sometimes—how music has no inherent qualities, and so our vocabulary often falls short. “Like, what? Loud, quiet, dark, bright, soft," she says, "they’re not actually words to describe music: they’re metaphors. It’s like talking about things that are intangible." So it is with this new release from London-via-Bergamo producer and songwriter Summer Ghost, which we're premiering below.

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"Catechism/Muzzle" is two tracks of instrumental magnificence that can best be described in associative feelings and imagery rather than adjectives. Hardstyle, experimental, industrial—sure, but to me it sounds like something beautiful being destroyed, or finding beauty in something destructive. It's like watching a natural disaster in slow motion, or seeing the earth explode from space. Featuring sounds previously unheard by human ears—in "Catechism," for example, there's a noise that's either a growl from a large animal or someone aggressively slurping a drink through a straw—it's a thrilling experience whose melodic sensibility rescues itself from being too challenging.

Have a listen.