For New York noise artist Margaret Chardiet, aka Pharmakon, the body is a wet, alien thing that hangs on the self like meat on a butcher’s hook. Her defining album, 2014’s Bestial Burden (Sacred Bones), chronicles a serious illness and hospitalization. It opens with the multitracked sound of her desperate breathing, in a claustrophobic symphony […]
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Pharmakon releases her primal scream on ‘Body Betrays Itself’
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is Pharmakon’s “Body Betrays Itself,” from the upcoming full-length Bestial Burden.