memento mori, by hxw hxw

memento mori

by hxw hxw

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1.	let me show you my mould collection 01:21	info	buy track
2.	a lonely place of dying 03:03	info	buy track
3.	skin of my teeth 02:12	info	buy track
4.	save me, o god; for the waters have come in unto my soul. I have sunk in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 03:23	info	buy track
5.	risus sardonicus 02:17	info	buy track
6.	boiled shit 02:51	info	buy track
7.	eli, eli, lama sabachthani 05:10	info	buy track
8.	the morning star 03:21	info	buy track
9.	still belief 03:33	info	buy track

about

Written between 2014-2016, 'memento mori' is the previously unreleased second full-length album by hxw hxw.

It looks primarily on the Biblical story of Job, in which God encourages Satan to utterly destroy the life of one of his most devout disciples. Rather than ultimately seeing positivity in blind faith, this album instead dwells on the negative aspects. Baseness, existentialism, the human body as meat that collects, consumes, defecates, fails, and dies. Consciousness as insanity, religion as farce. If any god ever existed, it doesn't care about us, the insignificant grains of decay floating in our petri dish universe.

There is little hope of anything in this world besides the knowledge that we are all subject to the human condition. No future beyond the fate we all must face. Each of us is the same metaphorical sample, looping, endlessly repeating the same insane, pointless rush towards the inevitability of death.

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released May 21, 2016

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hxw hxw London, UK

hxw hxw is an experimental, conceptual project that takes its name from the Greek nymph Ekho, who was only able to repeat words spoken to her, her own voice stolen away in a curse.

Only using audio samples gleaned from entertainment media such as film, television, and video games, hxw hxw questions the vanity of a consumerist lifestyle on which we are growing ever more dependant. ... more

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