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Chaos Butterfly

Chaos Butterfly

x/o

  • 4/3/2022
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Listed on Resident Advisor's 2022 "April's Best Music" and Bandcamp's "The Best Club Music on Bandcamp: March/April 2022" "...haunting Evanescence-style vocals and jungle-influenced percussion... This is a multi-dimensional release." – Resident Advisor https://ra.co/reviews/34812 "A criss-cross of glitchy textures, grungy 90’s trip-hop beats and heavy metal grit, the production factor is huge on an x/o track" – Sonduke Magazine “...the breakthrough of hard-hitting and ethereal.” – Still Listening “...end-of-level boss energy.” – Loud & Quiet ------------- Today, x/o the Vietnamese-Canadian electronic music producer, vocalist and filmmaker releases their debut album Chaos Butterfly.  An epic tale of catharsis and self-actualization explored through metamorphosis. It is a free-falling kaleidoscopic journey into a beautiful nightmare, both cataclysmic and tender. Expanding on the themes present in their first EP Cocoon Egg, the album builds a parallel world from a different perspective.  The album follows a loose narrative about an anti-hero navigating trauma through whirlwinds of grief and anger; a vengeful spirit who finds true strength in inner healing and forgiveness. An allegory for transcending societal concepts of gender, it is a journey of self-acceptance and reflection of x/o’s own path towards their non-binary identity. Throughout the voyage, x/o pulls apart and collides masculine and feminine tropes both conceptually and musically by utilizing contrasts between soft and hard, internal and external, calmness and anger, loud and quiet. This system of symbolism and influences reveals patterns of duality. Chaos Butterfly playfully resists easy categorisation, fusing breakbeats, with elements of solemn ambience, distorted metal, and trip-hop catharsis, with inspiration from artists such as Yoko Kanno, to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony as well as Deftones, Massive Attack, Orbital, and Aaliyah.  Colliding disparate but interconnected influences, x/o references Playstation’s Final Fantasy world-building, Fight Club, the half-yoma warriors in the anime Claymore, as well as the real legends of the Vietnamese Trưng Sisters. This is an album that reaches dizzying heights, and in 2022 we expect x/o to do the exact same.… Expand
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