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Impossible Light

by Uboa

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Jean Woodboy LaVie CestLol Absolutely stunning and important album. Favorite track: Sleep Hygiene.
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Grimmrobe Horror personified. A nightmare worth revisiting. Favorite track: Weaponised Dysphoria.
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Trazziiee ‘Impossible Light’ is a molten cocktail of Ambient, Doom, Noise and Industrial, striking a balance between grim, confronting themes with shimmers of hope to grasp onto.

Xandra melds her swift, chaotic noise jabs and throat-shredding shrieks through haunting and ethereal drone passages. She carves a fresh wound through the earth’s crust and into the dark skies above to tear apart.

It is a longing for solace. A tough and sorrowful search for a promising outcome. What a remarkable album! Favorite track: Pattern Screamers.
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1.
Phthalates 04:22
2.
happiness is chalky and white and it comes in a blister pack womanhood is a tiny pill, sweet and baby blue castration is rat poison prettied up with mint i flush my piss down into the oceans and rivers let all the frogs and fish bathe in my oestrogen let all of god’s creatures be forcibly feminised they are no longer his creations if they’re intersex and sterilised aesthetic endocrinology we’ll make a woman out of ecology if we are unnatural like they say then we will take their precious nature away
3.
A Puzzle 03:09
pull yourself open and undo the knots of your bowels
4.
my worm writhes inside me i love her more than i can say she sucks my blood and eats my flesh and fills the lesions with her eggs she coils around in shibari knots crawls under skin around my veins if i am a bottom then she’s a top if i am the host then she is a welcome guest she's a parasite and my kink a disease but i fucking get off to it an endless drive for endless life your love of me of which i’m blind i’ll let her feed until i die she’s my only excuse of why i’m alive once i’m used up she’ll move somewhere else both immortal and a lifeless corpse
5.
a girl so easy to destroy metastable nothing she can do a girl no way out forgotten, used up wave function collapse a girl trapped in a bedroom a landfill a rat’s nest a girl queen of machines they never leave singularity why would you bother going outside when all the grass is dead?
6.
Jawline 02:20
7.
please god kill the boy in me
8.
this bed is my body i rest and do nothing like death unproductive i feel safe and be nobody stay in bed stay in bed stay in bed stay in bed
9.
(Xandra) don’t give up before the war is lost there is still light at the end of infinity you just need to get up and run (Lane) 吕祖曰:天地视人如蜉蝣,大道视天地亦泡影,性元神真性,则超元会儿上之。* (In comparison with heaven and spirit, man is like mayfly. But compared to the great way, heaven and earth, too, are like a bubble and a shadow. Only the primal spirit and the true nature overcome time and space.) 所以,当人不再为之倾出所有,承以死亡的光驱,精神更上一级,静若止水* (If one wants to maintain the primal spirit, one must first subjugate to perceiving spirit. The way to subjugate it is through the circulation of the light, one must forget both body and heart, the heart must die, the spirit live.) * from the book《太乙金华宗旨》by LÜ Dongbin, later translated into The Secret of The Golden Flower by Richard Wilhelm and Carl Jung i open all the wounds i comfort them comfort them i comfort them oh how i long for you (i comfort them) oh how it does not matter i comfort them (Xandra) i saw the ghost if the boy i was i mourned the corpse of the girl i loved

about

Uboa’s fifth album Impossible Light almost never made it out of the dark. From its initial conception in 2018, this record went to hell and back, dragging its immensity and too-big-to-hold emotion through the torturous process of translation to sound and returned triumphantly as a full-bodied record in a distinct new style.

Impossible Light begins where Uboa's 2019 breakout album The Origin of My Depression left off — and ends somewhere entirely different. The Origin stunned with its methodical use of doom, harsh noise, and ambient soundscapes while documenting a raw, unhindered account of Xandra Metcalfe’s experiences with her transition and her struggles with mental health. Over time The Origin steadily grew a cult-like following which developed into a full-fledged internet community focused around noise, neurodiversity and transness. While Uboa’s signature style of highly polished, cinematic ‘hypernoise' is front and center in Impossible Light, there is also a daring departure into the genres of industrial metal/rock, setting it apart from any other Uboa release thus far and distinguishing it from other contemporary noise records.

Metcalfe kept the lyrical content of this record as a time capsule of the catastrophic ups and downs and rapidly changing environments within herself and in the world from 2018-2023. Key collaborators include Blood of a Pomegranate, Otay:onii, Charlie Looker and Haela Hunt-Hendrix of Liturgy. Impossible light dives fearlessly into queer sexuality, trans embodiment, grief for those who couldn't make it, solidarity for those facing unimaginable discrimination, the toxic spread of transphobic hatred and misinformation, and the ultimate hope of recovery from trauma and mental anguish. This is a record about the light at the end of the tunnel and the power it takes to keep moving towards it.

credits

released June 28, 2024

Uboa is Xandra Metcalfe - Vocals, baritone guitar, synthesisers, zither, sampling, drum programming,
drums/percussion, field recordings, noise, sound design, vocaloid, sampling, acoustic guitar, lyrics (except
Weaponized Dysphoria) and front cover text design.

Tig Harutyunyan (Blood of a Pomegranate) - Production, mixing, sound engineering, sound design,
synthesisers, guitar, and backup vocals (on Pattern Screamers).

Lane Shi Otay:onii - Lead vocals and lyrics (on Impossible Light / Golden Flower).

Charlie Looker - Lead vocals (on Jawline), and backup vocals (on Pattern Screamers and Impossible
Light / Golden Flower).

Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix - Screamed backup vocals (on Impossible Light / Golden Flower)

Lawrence English - Mastering

Samantha Milne - Vocaloid

Frankie Pan - Photography

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