Puce Mary announces new album The Drought, her first for PAN, and her sixth for poisonous arachnids

Even in the ever-flexible world of the industrial avant-garde, the times they are a-changing: Puce Mary (heretofore an invariable mainstay of the Posh Isolation label), is anticipating a change of scenery with the announcement of a new album on PAN, and she’s also looking forward to turning the agression INWARD after years of being the artistic equivalent of a woman hurling demon/feral cats at passersby.

That’s right: her latest album, The Drought, is being touted as a first attempt at wrestling with internal trials and tribulations. Somehow nobody’s written an album that musically documents what happens to your digestive system after a courageous bout with spicy Mexican food, so now we can be thankful that we’re finally on the verge of having that. I can’t wait for the colorectal denouement!

Nah, in truth, The Drought is more about the emotional sense of “internal,” as a press release describes the album as a “first person narrative,” where the “traumatised body serves as a dry landscape of which obscured memories and escape mechanisms fold reality into fiction, making sense of desire, loss and control.” The release is still noisy and industrial-sounding, and Frederikke Hoffmeier is still found speaking in a way that erects our armhairs, but it’s also clearly following a path. The written works of Charles Buadelaire and Jean Genet were supposedly an inspiration.

Have a listen to the track “Red Desert” below and pre-order The Drought ahead of its release on October 5, here.

The Drought tracklisting:

01. Dissolve
02. A Feast Before The Drought
03. To Possess Is To Be In Control
04. Fragments Of A Lily
05. Red Desert
06. Coagulate
07. The Size Of Our Desires
08. The Transformation
09. Slouching Uphill

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