Fear On Every Side

In the three years since Marius Costache’s previous full-length album for Amek as Discordless, his usual menacing and anxiety-fuelled music has reached even further into the sonic extremes. We can blame it on the world we live in, on the year that just passed, or on Costache’s very own distortion-worshipping approach to electronic music and his decades-worth of experience as a sound and recording engineer. Whichever you pick, ‘Fear On Every Side’ will remain a brutal take on contemporary noise music. It is demanding, disorienting, and primal work, but still captivating and sincere. Every element found on the record contributes to a narrative that feels simultaneously vast and intimate. ‘Fear On Every Side’ can be perceived both from a first-person perspective and as an overview of our decaying reality. The record doesn’t want you to overcome the sense of hopelessness, paranoia, and tension it unfolds in front of you, but rather to plunge you deeper into this place of no way out.