DREAM_MEGA Control / You Are Not The Center LP

Tracklist:

1. Casual Bunker
2. Alright Javier
3. After You’ve Gone
4. Ordinary Times
5. Den Den
6. Field Recording
7. Bone Trade
8. The River Is a Scar Made of Glass
9. Maggots
10. Financial Placeholder
11. Better Than
12. Weed King

At a recent DREAM_MEGA performance, Joel Kyack stood alone on stage, directing a lava flow of sound at the audience. Overwhelmed by the haunted-house frequencies, the invasive rhythms, the untethered, untuned vocals, one attendee bent against another to whisper, I think this guys channeling demons. Whether spoken in terror or esteem, this accusation is useful in the face of DREAM_MEGAs second LP, Control / You Are Not the Center. The record is laced with menace. You hear it in the mutant war marches, in the dancehall reflux, in the tolling bass. You hear it in the crystalline melodies and the yearning asc