‘Wellness Plan’ LP incoming October 30th.​ Erin Dawson, the mastermind behind Genital Shame, describes the upcoming LP Wellness Plan as “a process of acceptance through images of disappearing.”

The contradiction between the desire to disappear and the body’s impulse to survive runs throughout the record, returning to the question of how much control we have over our own survival. Dawson‘s music exists in a dissociative fog where terror, resignation, and determination become nearly impossible to separate. On ‘Wellness Plan’, Dawson widens that world, folding black metal and noise together with fragile moments of stillness. Of the album’s latest single Dawson comments: “I think all the time about how little upstream things (events, lingering thoughts) can have large downstream effects. This song plays with vaguely medical language to describe that snowballing effect — adjusting measurements of attachment, life-affirming positions, and self destructive tendencies.” Dawson‘s approach is informed by a background in music education and classical guitar, which she brings to her own strange iteration of experimental music rooted in black metal. LP is harmonically dense, with riffs and melodies folding into one another in unexpected ways. It draws from a tradition of weirdo black metal that treats the genre less as a fixed language than as something to pull apart, distort, and reassemble. Catch Genital Shame live in California:

Oct 02 Long Beach, CA – The Vine w/ Hand Model, Jenny Haniver, Tired Eyes
Oct 03 Los Angeles, CA — Oblivion w/ Slow Mass, Disheveled Cuss

‘Wellness Plan’, tracklist:

Replace What I’m After
Down Titration Strategies
Spiced Loam
I Want to Die Before You
Suicide Wellness Plan
Nucleus Accumbens Atrophy
Punished By Rewards
Górecki Peace
Gratitude Meditation
Goodbye (I’ve Left It Open)