RJRJRFFRJRJ by SHXCXCHCXSH

For the seventh release on Avian, Brewer invites unpronounceable Swedish outfit SHXCXCHCXSH to make their extraordinary debut.

Immediate but at the same time fantastically textured, SHXCXCHCXSH’s music straddles the experimental and the highly functional. The record almost feels as though split into two separate exercises, with A sides RJRJRFFRJRJ & MDDDSSLLKRR offering harsh, metallic tones, and B sides ZZNNZNZNNZN & OOOVVVDDDDD touching on a more atmospheric, dub Techno aesthetic. The coalescence between moniker and art is palpable. To see the SHXCXCHCXSH name in writing, alongside equally brutish track titles, is to hear the music - crushed white hot and warping, born out of a kind of order, but totally unbound by it.

While borderlining the loupe of impractical terms, such as techno or avantgarde, the Swedish duo has for the past decade built a reputation for their sonic finess rather than clear dramaturgy. Away from idolatry and escapism their music embodies a primitive urge to be alive.