Pharmakon - Devour (2019)
Pharmakon - Devour (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 267 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 108 Mb | Scans included | 00:36:07
Experimental, Noise, Industrial, Power Electronics | Label: Sacred Bones Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 267 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 108 Mb | Scans included | 00:36:07
Experimental, Noise, Industrial, Power Electronics | Label: Sacred Bones Records
Devour marks the fourth full-length record from Margaret Chardiet’s project Pharmakon and her most intense output to date. Like her previous albums, Devour comes with a strong concept that is exorcised throughout the five demolishing tracks on the album, using imagery and language of self-cannibalism as allegory for the self-destructive nature of humans. Each of the five songs echoes a stage of grief associated with this cyclical chamber of self-destruction and the chaos surrounding us that leads us to devour ourselves in an attempt to balance the agony.Tracklist:
The album was recorded by Ben Greenberg (Uniform) and is the first Pharmakon album recorded live in studio. The A and B sides were each recorded as a continuous take with vocals from start to finish, marking a totally new process for the artist that allows the ferocity and immediacy of her live performance to resonate throughout. Devour also explores new sonic territory, with denser electronics, groovier hooks, and moments of her most unhinged vocal deliveries to date. As one of the premiere vanguards of modern industrial and power electronics, Chardiet continuously pushes the genres and everyone involved in them, and with the release of Devour, she has once again changed the game.
Artist Statement:
“Devour” uses self-cannibalization as allegory for the self-destructive nature of humans; on cellular, individual, societal and species-wide scales. In our cells, our minds, our politics and our species, humans are self-destructing. But this behavior does not happen in a vacuum. It is an instinctive inward response to a world of increasing outward violence, greed, and oppression. Turning these wounds toward ourselves can be seen as an attempt at “balancing feedback”, within a never-ending positive feedback loop of cause and effect. With this view, the blame is placed not within the individual, but with the world they must contend with, and a society that is designed to fail them - to keep them gnashing and wailing, inflicted with an all-devouring hunger that inevitably turns in on the self. Those that pit them against each other grin from the sidelines, bellies full. Those who see beyond the veil need to obscure the horrid sight by any means necessary, but respite is always brief- nothing can dampen the glare from behind the veil. This album is dedicated to all who were lost to their own demise, all who have been institutionalized; whether in prison, psychiatric facilities, or drug rehabilitation. It is for all those ostracized by and isolated from a totality which chews them up alive in a self-cannibalizing caste system. Here, where martyrs, slaves, and pharmakos are not eradicated, but simply called by another name. “ABOUT THE SHALLOWNESS OF SANITY”… To be well adjusted in this system is to be oblivious and unfeeling. This is for the rest of us, who understand that chaos, madness, pain and even self-destruction are natural and inevitable responses to an unjust and disgusting world of our own making.
1. Homeostasis (04:07)
2. Spit It Out (07:32)
3. Self-Regulating System (06:23)
4. Deprivation (07:53)
5. Pristine Panic / Cheek by Jowl (10:12)
Exact Audio Copy V1.3 from 2. September 2016
EAC extraction logfile from 26. August 2019, 19:42
Pharmakon / Devour
Used drive : ATAPI DVD A DH16AASH Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -e -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%–tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 4:07.02 | 0 | 18526
2 | 4:07.02 | 7:32.24 | 18527 | 52450
3 | 11:39.26 | 6:22.74 | 52451 | 81174
4 | 18:02.25 | 7:52.46 | 81175 | 116620
5 | 25:54.71 | 10:12.31 | 116621 | 162551
Track 1
Filename X:\P\Pharmakon\2019 Devour\01 - Homeostasis.wav
Pre-gap length 0:00:02.00
Peak level 96.9 %
Extraction speed 3.3 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 0ECAF364
Copy CRC 0ECAF364
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK
Track 2
Filename X:\P\Pharmakon\2019 Devour\02 - Spit It Out.wav
Peak level 98.2 %
Extraction speed 4.1 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 11B82D85
Copy CRC 11B82D85
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK
Track 3
Filename X:\P\Pharmakon\2019 Devour\03 - Self-Regulating System.wav
Peak level 98.9 %
Extraction speed 4.6 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 53A9D6BB
Copy CRC 53A9D6BB
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK
Track 4
Filename X:\P\Pharmakon\2019 Devour\04 - Deprivation.wav
Peak level 98.0 %
Extraction speed 5.2 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 33858955
Copy CRC 33858955
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK
Track 5
Filename X:\P\Pharmakon\2019 Devour\05 - Pristine Panic ∕ Cheek by Jowl.wav
Peak level 97.7 %
Extraction speed 5.8 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC D448073E
Copy CRC D448073E
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK
None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database
No errors occurred
End of status report
–– CUETools DB Plugin V2.1.6
[CTDB TOCID: jaWPzy0NL6.8HILGzbDNOLFBEss-] disk not present in database
Submit result: jaWPzy0NL6.8HILGzbDNOLFBEss- has been uploaded
==== Log checksum C6E3224B3198E49086E03E8ED4867955F0F2A92DA54198E4A52C8A638574293D ====
EAC extraction logfile from 26. August 2019, 19:42
Pharmakon / Devour
Used drive : ATAPI DVD A DH16AASH Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -e -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%–tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 4:07.02 | 0 | 18526
2 | 4:07.02 | 7:32.24 | 18527 | 52450
3 | 11:39.26 | 6:22.74 | 52451 | 81174
4 | 18:02.25 | 7:52.46 | 81175 | 116620
5 | 25:54.71 | 10:12.31 | 116621 | 162551
Track 1
Filename X:\P\Pharmakon\2019 Devour\01 - Homeostasis.wav
Pre-gap length 0:00:02.00
Peak level 96.9 %
Extraction speed 3.3 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 0ECAF364
Copy CRC 0ECAF364
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK
Track 2
Filename X:\P\Pharmakon\2019 Devour\02 - Spit It Out.wav
Peak level 98.2 %
Extraction speed 4.1 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 11B82D85
Copy CRC 11B82D85
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK
Track 3
Filename X:\P\Pharmakon\2019 Devour\03 - Self-Regulating System.wav
Peak level 98.9 %
Extraction speed 4.6 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 53A9D6BB
Copy CRC 53A9D6BB
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK
Track 4
Filename X:\P\Pharmakon\2019 Devour\04 - Deprivation.wav
Peak level 98.0 %
Extraction speed 5.2 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 33858955
Copy CRC 33858955
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK
Track 5
Filename X:\P\Pharmakon\2019 Devour\05 - Pristine Panic ∕ Cheek by Jowl.wav
Peak level 97.7 %
Extraction speed 5.8 X
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC D448073E
Copy CRC D448073E
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK
None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database
No errors occurred
End of status report
–– CUETools DB Plugin V2.1.6
[CTDB TOCID: jaWPzy0NL6.8HILGzbDNOLFBEss-] disk not present in database
Submit result: jaWPzy0NL6.8HILGzbDNOLFBEss- has been uploaded
==== Log checksum C6E3224B3198E49086E03E8ED4867955F0F2A92DA54198E4A52C8A638574293D ====
Thanks to the Original ripper !