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On THE FVCKHEATED LVNG, New York visual artist and musician Austin Sley-Julian of Sunk Heaven might convince you the lungfish is the spirit animal of 2021. He explains the creatures significance - "Lungfish survive severe drought by laying dormant in dry mud within a membrane until the rain - the emergence of the dormant lungfish from under the drought-ridden mud represents the garish reality of our times." THE FVCKHEATED LVNG is noisy but lucid, fittingly never falling into tropes of academic experimentalism or no-wave. Sley-Julian draws the throughline from dormancy to inequality and societal brutality. The surreal, dub-drenched "A Nameless Influence" nods more directly to the lineage of violence, of the capacity for sleeping minds to become co-opted by someone elses political agenda. "Have you ever seen such a tragic red," he asks at the songs beginning, "as time stains on the same mistakes?" Harsh noise pans in and out, re-enforcing the songs central image.

1) Fortitude

2) Fall W-O Impact

3) Cancer Of The Room (ft. Rachael Uhlir)

4) A Nameless Influence

5) Breathtaking

6) Coiling Devices

7) Phoenix (ft. Rachael Uhlir)

8) Moonfires

9) Motiv Turmoil

10) Shine