"The Carcass Which Corrupts Worms"

"The Carcass Which Corrupts Worms" is the first full-length Father of the Flood release since 2009's "Since I Die Daily, Daily Mourne." The new album (recorded by Bryce Hample - Jan. 2012) is quite the departure from D. Brigman's earlier works which focused more on integrated field recordings and tape manipulation.  The three individual pieces which compose Carcass are built upon scaffolding layers of heavily reverberated tremolo bass guitar and distant vocals, connected by brief encounters with more traditional FOTF sound textures.  The content was greatly influenced by the 2010 squat fire in the 9th Ward of New Orleans which claimed the lives of its 8 inhabitants (most of them teens or in the early twenties).


This release will be available on the upcoming STREIGHTS / Father of the Flood tour on CDR format.  A larger quantity release on cassette is planned for March 2012 through Moldspores.


The Carcass Which Corrupts Worms by Father of the Flood

Father of the Flood was a project beginning in 2005, created as a means of coping with the psychological assaults I felt confronted by through many accepted traditions and practices of our civilization. Much of the content/propaganda, both aural and visual, surrounding FOTF promotes the vegan lifestyle I embrace and encourage, especially the active support of animal liberation struggles and the direct participation of abolishing all that forsake an autonomous existence.

These pieces are intended to allow space and encourage contemplation or self-abandonment at will, they are composed of actual sounds from our urban environments that offer the listener an opportunity for a naive ear and a more self-focused position of judgement. These sounds are bleak and consuming. Swells of densely layered soundscapes and imposing drones contrasted with various cold and vacant bowed acoustic instruments/objects, sparse piano movements, and integrated field recordings.