Pharmakon Bestial Burden

Alternative, experimental, psychotic and avant-garde. It's difficult to define exactly that music Pharmakon actually produces. Needless to say, Margaret Chardiet made an impact in the indie scene last year, and Pitchfork is still on the hype train.

She's set to release a new album titled Bestial Burden, which was written during a hospital visit.

"After seeing internal photographs taken during the surgery, I became hyperaware of the complex network of systems just beneath the skin, any of which were liable to fail or falter at any time. It all happened so fast and unexpectedly that my mind took a while to catch up to the reality of my recovery. I felt a widening divide between my physical and mental self. It was as though my body had betrayed me, acting as a separate entity from my consciousness. I thought of my corporeal body anthropomorphically, with a will or intent of its own, outside of my will's control, and seeking to sabotage. I began to explore the idea of the conscious mind as a stranger inside an autonomous vessel, and the tension that exists between these two versions of the self."

01 Vacuum
02 Intent or Instinct
03 Body Betrays Itself
04 Primitive Struggle
05 Autoimmune
06 Bestial Burden