KATHRYN MOHR – Waiting Room – LP – White Vinyl

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LP – Limited Edition White Vinyl.

Received an 8.4 Best New Music rating from Pitchfork. Low-fi slowcore and ambient
from the San Francisco Bay Area. For fans of Grouper, Midwife, The Flenser. The music of San Jose-based artist Kathryn Mohr existsin a liminal space of auditory dissociation. Drawing inspiration from lost items washing up on the shore of the San Francisco Bay, Mohrsart chases the ephemeral nature of humanity, the warping of memory, and how trauma changes ones experience of this world.

Her newalbum Waiting Room out on The Flenser was written and self-recorded over the course of a month in eastern Iceland, within the walls ofa disused fish factory surrounded by remote nature. Mohr spent hours immersed in the writing and recording of this album in awindowless concrete room lit with a string of multi-coloured light bulbs (which made their way into the album art), taking breaks to
wander the factory or disappear up the shorelinefield recorder in hand. What came out of those recording hours are songs inspired byhorror as extravagant as limb amputation by a faulty elevator and lyrics as maze-like and misguided as the torturous love and fears theydepict. During this period of isolation in the tiny fishing village of Stvarfjrur, Mohr was all too aware of a feeling of waiting, attuned toall the worm-like emotions and memories that crawl out of the ground when there is nothing and no one to distract. She spent most timein the factory, which had sat derelict for a decade, and was in the process of being repurposed into a space for artists, with many partsleft untouched since the last days of fish production and other rooms made new with heat and light. This state of incompleteness, of lossof meaning, and repurposing became a mirror of her inner world, her abandoned ideas of home, love, affection, and meaning dissolvedby traumatic memories of violence. Waiting Room is a processing of nearly untouchable emotions of rebuilding the foundation for which
elusive words like affection, passion and home can have a meaning weatherproof to and detangled from the direct, physical andemotional violence that permeates our experiences on earth.

Tracklist:

1. Diver
2. Rated
3. Driven
4. Petrified
5. Take It
6. Elevator
7. Prove It
8. Horizonless
9. Cornered
10. Wheel
11. Waiting Room