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9.3
70303
9.3 |
Earbuddy
This is most certainly not everyone’s thing, but like all great art, it provokes thought and debate, achieving much more than just a disposable file on your computer
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9.0
70304
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
This is noise/industrial music that demands to be heard. If you don’t think you’ll like noise music, think again
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9.0
70301
9.0 |
The 405
At just under 30 minutes long, the record is as brief as it is uncompromising
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9.0
70621
9.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Bestial Burden, in its immediacy, in its primal, abrasive engagement with the senses, reaches across the division of bodies to speak directly to you
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8.5
70353
8.5 |
Crack
A gut-trusting, visceral diary entry for an artist obsessed with the unfathomable nature of existence
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8.4
70374
8.4 |
Pitchfork
As a whole, Bestial Burden highlights Chardiet’s ability to re-draw the boundaries of her own artistic approach, ripping out its guts and creating something new out of the decaying remains
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8.0
70305
8.0 |
NME
This is that rare music that genuinely deserves the descriptor ‘visceral’
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8.0
70339
8.0 |
All Music
Pharmakon's most viscerally unsettling and masterfully engaging work to date
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8.0
70302
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Pharmakon balances noise and confrontation more confidently and coherently than almost everyone else in the ‘scene’ today
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8.0
70419
8.0 |
The Quietus
As the record unfolds, it becomes a compelling drama in which lurching bass thuds, diseased drones and shards of metallic rhythm converge evilly on Chardiet's traumatised body and mind
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8.0
70428
8.0 |
Beardfood
Bestial Burden is unyielding, brutal, and somehow beautiful
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8.0
70551
8.0 |
Under The Radar
Opens with the sound of Chardiet's desperate panting, closes with insane laughter, and in between there's a whole heap of truly frightening slow-tempo metallic clatter
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8.0
70300
8.0 |
Exclaim
While ultimately less "musical" than some of the ambient industrial sounds of Pharmakon's 2011 debut, Bestial Burden is immensely captivating and exquisitely structured, another unique offering from an unparalleled artist
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7.5
70379
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
There’s some triumph in Chardiet’s progression through the album, from a difficulty breathing to a detached understanding that she doesn’t belong in this constantly crumbling existence
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7.0
70597
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
With her heavily processed voice floating through the feedback, it's the remarkably detailed cry of a soul on fire
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7.0
71505
7.0 |
Fact
Achieves exactly what it sets out to do: to turn the gory inner mechanics of the body outward, and lay bare its unpredictable capacity for self-destruction
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5.0
70417
5.0 |
PopMatters
Bestial Burden really knows how to work a mood, and beat that sense of claustrophobic misery right into the ground
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