Wertham & Strom.ec & Josh Lay – St Valentine's Day LP

In 2005 I released ‘St Bartholomew’s Day’, a four artist double cassette, each act tasked with finding their own artistic expression of the French religious massacre of 1572. Finally, 20 years later, comes ‘St Valentine’s Day’: another historical lodestar of unhinged and inexplicable violence, updated to the Prohibition-era streets of Chicago.

Each artist was carefully selected with a view to intersecting their own stylistic and thematic interests with the subject matter of the release, and wanting to realise a release which harnessed the uniqueness of each while linking a shared stylistic energy. The result is this long-overdue LP of which I am incredibly proud: threads of religious penance, unapologetic bloodshed, conspiratorial intrigue and political collapse all leech from the given theme, and each act delivers a harrowing set of power electronics compositions rich in detail, compositional depth, potency and crimson.

Edition of 200 LPs, mastered by Grant Richardson, cover artwork by Scott Candey (Crionic Mind), individual artist inserts.
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