“I hope you enjoy, in your own way, our slices of dark catharsis.” — Mike Cadoo
Are you feeling it today? The painful weight of existence. Heartbreak, regret, fear, loneliness, or perhaps just the looming knowledge of death—we all know well the feeling of being ill at ease. But we also would do well to remember we’re never truly alone in our pain, and here is 52 minutes to prove it: Pang of Being is a gorgeous, crushing collaborative industrial drone album by Mike Cadoo (primarily performing synthesizers and “audio smear”) and Paul Stephan (primarily performing guitar and “audio elasticity”).
“A False Sense” opens the work slowly, blooming out of silence into a tense multi-threaded thrum. Later, “Tension in Quincunx” begins with vast metallic reverberations, building ultimately to a final minute of entrancing beats. Buried within “Trina’s Calling” are what sound like foghorns, eventually overshadowed by menacing, pulsing laser synths. It is just the thing for a heart in darkness, yearning for catharsis.
There are four copies of a total 20 limited edition cassettes still available on Bandcamp.
