PHARMAKON
(anti)INDUSTRIAL (de)COMPOSER
Pharmakon is the solo project of Margaret Chardiet, an interdisciplinary sound artist born and based in New York City. As a project, entity, and process, Pharmakon exists and evolves in true protean form, developing alongside and within Margaret’s personal experience and auto-didactic philosophies. Her work as a whole is a forced self-possession: a celebration of ferality and viscereality, abandoning a society that has never accepted anything it couldn’t also exploit.
Pharmakon’s newest studio album, Maggot Mass, is set to be released October 4, 2024. Full of grimy, industrial noise and wrathful vocals with ecocentric lyricism denouncing our capitalistic society and its greed, violence, and lack of compassion for human and non-human life, drawing links between the crises of environment and humanitarian disasters.
PHARMAKON
Today @pharmakon_noise unveils her latest album Maggot Mass, out in full & streaming everywhere now via @sacredbonesrecords ! 🪱
From the death of an internal set of rules and structures that Chardiet built for Pharmakon at its conception, the project is reborn in a new form: this album marks a notable pivot in sonic, vocal, and lyrical styles for the 17-year project, hearkening to Industrial and Punk while still maintaining its vitriolic and experimental roots in Power Electronics and Noise.
Maggot Mass is bred out of a disgust for the dysfunctional relationship that humans have developed with our environment and the rest of life on earth. It touches on the wounds of loneliness inflicted by that broken bond, and asks us to face the mirror in acknowledgement of our personal and systemic culpability.
Variants pictured (clockwise)
-“EUTROPHIC EUPHORIA” green vinyl edition
- Sacred Bones Edition “ALGAL BLOOM”vinyl edition of 300 available by mail-order only.
- Cassette
-CD
- Sacred Bones Record Society version: Edition of 150 hand-numbered copies, comes with alternate screen printed, wax-sealed wrap around sleeve, LP pressed on Society-exclusive “MOSS ON STONE” vinyl, and available by mail-order only.
- Black LP
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Today @pharmakon_noise shares the new single “METHANAL DOLL”. Pondering nature and societal collapse through a lens of feverish surrealism, the song is accompanied by a grisly video that plays into the record’s confrontational gore. Directed by Pharmakon, Max Rooney and Hank Allen. Off of the forthcoming album Maggot Mass, out Oct 4th via @sacredbonesrecords
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After five years, Pharmakon is back with new music for your earthly ears. Maggot Mass, out October 4th on @sacredbonesrecords , is bred out of a disgust for the dysfunctional relationship that humans have developed with our environment and the rest of life on earth. It touches on the wounds of loneliness inflicted by that broken bond, and asks us to face the mirror in acknowledgement of our personal and systemic culpability.
Along with the news of the album, Pharmakon unearths the first single “WITHER AND WARP,” plunging us into her realm and surrounding us with the sounds of buzzing insects, nasty drones and sludgy guitars.
Stream “WITHER AND WARP” today and pre-order your copy of Maggot Mass now! Prepare your bodies and souls for this record 🪰
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