BEFORE YOU I APPEAR

Following the release of their acclaimed album What One
Becomes in June of this year, SUMAC return with Before You
I Appear, a limited 12" EP featuring 30 minutes of remixes
from UK techno artist Samuel Kerridge, Bleed Turquoise (aka
James Ginzburg of recent Thrill Jockey signees Emptyset),
noise icon Kevin Drumm and Japanese catastrophic noise
metal group ENDON. The results range from impossibly dense
and perpetually ascending psych-noise blowouts, to subdued
passages of subtly curdled drones punctuated by disembodied
vocal excretions.
In composing music, SUMAC opts for a process of simultaneous
construction and dismantlement. Long-form rock based
structures are distended to the point of erosion, reiterated in
continually alternating sequences, and plied with extra-musical
implements of chaos and tonal abstraction. Through the practice
of psychophysical exertion and sensorial disorientation the
music becomes a tangible projection of the players underlying
emotions and spirit.