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the rot

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Lars Gotrich more ease's auto-tuned, Sonic Youth'd nu-dream-pop band. Like swimming in summertime fuzz and goo. Favorite track: weigh the rot.

finnegans_cake smashing pumpkins and NIN filtered through endless ultra-lo-fi filters, bitcrushers and autotune, like Have a Nice Life for 2023, never heard anything quite like it Favorite track: worms.

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	1.	vie 02:02
	2.	distracted parking lots 04:29
	3.	weigh the rot 06:29
	4.	exposed nerve 03:10
	5.	wet paper reserve 02:40
	6.	worms 08:40
	7.	wasted 05:21

about

THE ROT is the follow-up release from Mari Maurice’s (More Eaze) FIBRIL project after a debut on Already Dead and reissued by Debacle Records earlier this year. Now a full band project the rot trades in the same love of 90s alt-rock, nu-metal and bedroom pop as the debut but leans heavily towards digital decay and the textures of blackened noise and industrial.

The self-titled fibril, which was a solo effort, focused on the feelings of burnout Mari was experiencing at the time. After a positive reception to the project, she attempted to form a band around those ideas. The initial line-up formed and they were set to start playing live shows and working on the follow-up, but as with many things the pandemic had other plans and Mari was forced to shelve the record for years.

Eventually, Mari reconnected with Matthew Seidel who helped to flesh out the new songs by co-arranging and mixing the record. Alton Jenkins provided drums on the record and Matt Hudson has since joined the band as well. Over two years later, the plan to expand to a full band and play live shows is back on.

Decay and rot is a well-trod path in metal and industrial but is most commonly seen as a force of nature and bacteria. Fibril presents a rot that is very familiar to those of us who came of age on the millennial internet. Living in post-pandemic America rotting under private equity, extreme weather, and food deserts. Our memories are stuck on flaking CD-Rs, 240p video files, and abandoned phpbb’s. The sounds and feelings underlying these songs are purposefully out of reach and not coming back. This isn't just lost youth, this is rotted memory.

The Rot is also an achingly beautiful record and an exhilarating rock record that re-contextualizes nu-metal and femme emo-ambient under the same roof and reclaims the power of the rushing down-tuned riff as an emotional lever.

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released August 4, 2023

fibril is alton jenkins, mari maurice, and matthew seidel.

mastered by andrew weathers
mixed by matthew seidel
written by mari maurice
art by pame santiago

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mari, matt, matt, and alton.

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