Nadja – Labyrinthine MC
Label: Pale Ghoul Recordings
Genre: Doom, Sludge, Avant-Garde, Ambient, Drone
Four extended tracks of atmospheric doom sludge, each with a different guest vocalist: Alan Dubin (Gnaw, Khanate), Rachel Davies (Esben & The Witch), Lane Shi Otayonii (Elizabeth Colour Wheel), & Dylan Walker (Full of Hell).
Labyrinthine explores themes of identity and loss, monstrosity and regret, extreme aesceticism, the differences between labyrinthes and mazes, taking inspiration from Haruki Murakami's "Killing Commendatore", Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Tombs of Atuan", and Victor Pelevin's reinterpretation of the story of the minotaur and Ariadne, "The Helmet of Horror".
Mastered by James Plotkin, artwork by HLG.
Cassette inlay design (Aus edition) by Ruby Kubetz
To be released on CD by Broken Spine & limited cassettes by: Katuktu Collective (US), Cruel Nature Records (UK), Bad Moon Rising (Taiwan), Adagio830 (Germany), Muzan Editions (Japan), UR Audio Visual (Canada), Pale Ghoul (Australia), & WV Sorcerer (France/China).
Release date: September 6, 2022