New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Trevor Powers has shared a second couplet of tracks from Mulberry Violence set for release on August 17th (Baby Halo). The album's opening two songs, "XTQ Idol" and "Dicegame" set the scene for this diverse, enthralling and bewitchingly eccentric listen, where surrealist electronics and Powers' haunting vocals are grounded by emphatic piano-work.
Speaking on the first of the two tracks, Trevor told The Fader: Early in the process of forming Mulberry Violence, I took a trip to the Czech Republic & visited Sedlec Ossuary, a small Roman Catholic church elaborately adorned with the bones of 40,000 people ::: many of whom died from the plague. Garlands of skulls.
Crosses of femurs. Chalices of hipbones. A chandelier made from every bone in the human skeleton. This was all constructed as a way to honor the dead. For me, it was a labyrinth of mirrors. My reflection multiplied thousands of times in front of me, & I couldn't look away. I saw myself as I really was. Trembling, I said a hushed prayer. Each turn showed me there was no escape from how it all ends; beneath this skin & without this spirit was just another heap of bones. As the tension through my muscles eventually lessened, a peculiar peace washed over me. My problems shrunk. My stress diminished. My pain was temporary. Maybe one day someone will use my tibia in a human chandelier.. ? I can only dream. Late that night, I started XTQ Idol.
On "Dicegame" he commented: My favorite painter, the existential outcast Francis Bacon, described a work by saying, "It was like one continuous accident mounting on top of another." This is entirely how I function - shaping ideas for weeks or months that lead absolutely nowhere.. it's not until I fuck up & do something totally inadvertent that the path finally begins to glow. The mistake is always more captivating than the intention. Dicegame had 6 other versions before it. All of them different; none of them honest. The entryway refused to accept any of my passcodes; it wasn't until the big blunder came & I typed that into the keypad that the gate finally swung open. I chased the accident, mutated it, made more mistakes along the way, viscerally put them together, & the song finally had life.
The full track list to Mulberry Violence has been kept secret. Powers initially announced this new recording venture with the video for "Playwright," closely followed by the album announcement and the first couplet of tracks; the creeping bass-heavy "Ache" and shattering, distorted melancholy of"Plaster Saint."
Mulberry Violence Pre-order link: https://trevorpowers.lnk.to/MulberryViolence
Trevor Powers live dates:
Sep 26 Boise, ID Neurolux
Sep 27 Seattle, WA Barboza
Sep 28 Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret
Sep 29 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
Oct 01 San Francisco, CA Independent
Oct 03 Los Angeles, CA Lodge Room
Oct 05 Salt Lake City, UT Metro
Music Hall
Oct 06 Denver, CO Lost Lake
Oct 08 Kansas City, MO Encore at Uptown
Oct 09 Omaha, NE The Slowdown
Oct 11 Minneapolis, MN Turf Club
Oct 12 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
Oct 13 Detroit, MI Underground @ DIME
Oct 14 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern
Oct 16 Boston, MA Great Scott
Oct 17 New York, NY
National Sawdust
Oct 18 Philadelphia, PA Boot and Saddle
Oct 19 Washington, DC U Street
Music Hall
Oct 30 London, UK Electrowerkz
Nov 01 Amsterdam, NL Cinetol
Nov 02 Antwerp, BE Trix
Nov 03 Hamburg, DE Häkken
Nov 04 Berlin, DE Frannz Club
