Chastity Platinum: Dead Scream by LEUCROCUTA

April 14, 2023: Chastity Platinum: Dead Scream, a new EP by Ottawa-based experimental avant-pop electronic artist Leucrocuta, is the sound of a demonic possession via the grocery store P.A. system by a chaotic-neutral time demon: 𝒞𝒽𝒶𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝒫𝓁𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓃𝓊𝓂. It’s what happens when you take your mind away and leave yourself open to whatever passing entities may wander through.

Written during the height of pandemic lockdowns, Chastity Platinum: Dead Scream was a way for Leucrocuta to explore fractured & queer identity through vocal processing, and to enter trance states through improvisation with simple but powerful synthesizer sequences, drum machine patterns, and repeated lyrical phrases.

𝒞𝒽𝒶𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝒫𝓁𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓃𝓊𝓂 is what happens when you invite the pod aliens to invade you. It’s what happens when you let your machines take control and sweat the big stuff. It’s about transformation and revelation through dissociation. Dissociation can be a powerful tool.. but who wields it?

Leucrocuta is an electronic music project. Their sound draws its influence from industrial, ambient and outsider avant-pop, and “feels like a dream often on fast forward” (Intersection Festival).

In September of 2020, they released their second... more

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released April 14, 2023

Written, recorded & produced, and mixed by: Laura Dickens

Mastered by: Sage Kim at Lacquer Channel Mastering

Album & single artwork by: Dot Starkey

Special thanks to: PonyHAUS, Sina Âwsémoon & Madi Piller, Suoni Per Il Popolo, Dot Starkey, and Erin Corbett

We acknowledge financial support from FACTOR and the Government of Canada.

Much love to Kathryne Lentes and Sihn Starr Cartia at Paper Phoenix Ink for this lovely review of this album: paperphoenixink.com/2023/02/22/review-leucrocuta-chastity-platinum-dead-scream/ and thanks so much for this interview as well: paperphoenixink.com/2023/08/16/interview-with-leucrocuta/

We appreciate this interview with Leucrocuta with 15 Questions:

15questions.net/interview/fifteen-questions-interview-leucrocuta/

Thanks so much to I Thought I Heard a Sound for this review and for including it in their favorite albums of 2023: thasound.blogspot.com/2023/12/2023-year-end-invitational.html?m=1