Love Is in the Shit by otay:onii

For fans of Lingua Ignota, Uboa, Julie Christmas, darkwave, and the realization that we all ultimately grieve alone, Love Is in the Shit by otay:onii puts all the presence and personality of a singer-songwriter tape into the form of a deeply experimental post-industrial labyrinth. A dense mosaic of cobwebbed theatrical balladry, digital harsh noise, metal blast beats, wild glitch electronica, and many more styles distance this record from any individual influence, each twist and turn coming as a genuine surprise even in such an eclectic environment. However, a unified voice following bleak narratives of existential crisis and overwhelming loss shines as a beacon through the deep fog of aesthetic variety, bringing that transparent intensity we typically associate with a more conventional singer-songwriter. For all the souls which struggle to find complete expression in the flowing poetry and melancholic softness of the minimal songwriter tradition, our experience of those same emotions bursts into the radiant color of absolute a aesthetic panic, the sort which uses all available genres to cry for help as the hopelessness of subjectivity closes in.