Street Sects

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Street Sects
OriginAustin, Texas, U.S.
Genres
Years active2013–present
LabelsThe Flenser
Members
  • Leo Ashline
  • Shaun Ringsmuth
Past members
  • Michael Lauden
Websitestreetsects.bandcamp.com

Street Sects is an American

screamed vocals, samples of both noise and synthesizers, and nihilistic lyrics. Following two EPs released in 2014, the duo's debut album End Position was released in 2016 on The Flenser
to generally positive reviews.

History

In 2013, in the wake of struggling with addiction for thirteen years, vocalist Leo Ashline formed Street Sects with his friend, multi-instrumentalist Shaun Ringsmuth, in order to produce extreme, experimental music addressing the negative aspects of life.[1] In 2014, they self-released the first two EPs for the planned Gentrification: A Serial Album pentalogy: The Morning After the Night We Raped Death (February 4) and Broken Windows, Sunken Ceilings (July 15). On November 18 they also released the song "Things Will Be Better in California" which is a composition built from Spill/Fill, a collection of samples by Wreck and Reference from their 2014 album Want. All of these works were produced by the duo, mastered by James Plotkin, and illustrated by A.J. Garces Bohmer based on concepts by Ashline.[2]

Street Sects' debut studio album End Position was released on September 16, 2016, through The Flenser to generally positive reviews. It was mixed and mastered by Machines with Magnets in Providence, Rhode Island.[1] The album's title is based on a lyric from I See a Darkness by Will Oldham.[3]

Musical style

On their

synths, samples, pained vocals and industrial rhythms" featuring "nightmarish noise, punk and industrial punchouts".[3] Tristan Jones of Sputnikmusic wrote: "Street Sects combine dirty synths with traces of noisecore and industrial piss, underscored with thoughts of suicide and misanthropy."[5] Dæv Tremblay of Can This Even Be Called Music? called their music "hardcore plunderphonics".[6] Stephen Proski of New Noise Magazine praised the interplay between Ringsmuth's sophisticated musical structures and Leo Ashline's (screamed) vocals, which he called "intimate and vehement".[7]

Members

  • Leo Ashline – vocals, production (2013–present)
  • Shaun Ringsmuth – instruments, samples, production (2013–present)
  • Michael Lauden – guitar, drums, production (2019)

Discography

Studio albums
Title Album details
End Position
The Kicking Mule
  • Released: October 26, 2018
  • Label: Flenser Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download, cassette
EPs
  • Gentrification I: The Morning After the Night We Raped Death (2014)
  • Gentrification II: Broken Windows, Sunken Ceilings (2014)
  • Rat Jacket (2017)
  • Gentrification III: Death and Displacement (2019)
  • Gentrification IV: Suspended from Gallery Rails (2019)
  • Gentrification V: Whitewashed (2022)
Splits
  • Street Sects / Portrayal of Guilt (2018)
  • Street Sects / Curse (2018)
Singles
  • "Things Will Be Better in California" (2014)
  • "And I Grew Into Ribbons" (2016)
  • "Featherweight Hate" (2016)
  • "Blacken the Other Eye" (2017)
  • "Things Will Be Better In Hell" (2018)
  • "In For a World of Hurt" (2018)
  • "Still Between Lovers" (2018)
  • "The Drifter" (2018)
  • "Fourteen Frames" (featuring
    LINGUA IGNOTA
    )     (2019)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Street Sects – End Position". The Flenser. July 19, 2016. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Street Sects". Bandcamp. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  3. ^ a b "10 New Artists You Need to Know: October 2016". Rolling Stone. October 21, 2016. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  4. ^ Devlin, Adam. "Street Sects – End Position". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  5. ^ Jones, Tristan (September 17, 2016). "Street Sects – End Position". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  6. ^ Tremblay, Dæv (October 29, 2016). "Mini-Reviews XXVII". Can This Even Be Called Music?. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  7. ^ Proski, Stephen (September 14, 2016). "Album Review: Street Sects – 'End Position'". New Noise Magazine. Retrieved November 2, 2016.

External links

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