Mathieu Serruys
Skin/Glove
B.A.A.D.M.
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2019
Includes Instant Download
LP
18.99
BAADM007LP / Includes Download Code
Edition of 300 copies
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Tracklist
1Les Temps Blancs 3:32
2The Landing 6:10
3Glove 6:50
4Skin 4:32
5Suddenly You're With Me, I Turn And You're Not There (For Tom)9:05
6Cheval Blanc 5:59

Skin/Glove is the second LP by Belgian musician Mathieu Serruys, following the release of his B.A.A.D.M. debut On Germaine Dulac back in 2014. Compiled over the course of a fortnight, the record features material recorded over the past five years: creaks of ice buckling under heat, thick hums like nauseating headaches, plumes of evaporated organ hymns, frostbitten crackles of dying tape loops. These disparate sources are unified by the pervasive corrosion of pain and time, which presses into the surface of every sonic object. Melodies splinter under the strain of being pulled apart; drones tremble under the gathering gravity of fatigue; dissonances flicker like candles on the brink of extinguishment. Yet despite the emotional density of the material itself, the process of composition provides a route toward comprehending how these sounds and experiences are connected. Skin/Glove reads as a constellatory map of adversity and grief, beautifully coalesced through the cathartic distance of retrospect, haunted by the sibilant whispers of distinct memories in dialogue, latticed by lesions that fatefully and poignantly intersect.