Within the rush of granular haze of Project Icarus’ “WITHIN THE FLESH” one hears the faint metallic sounds of unidentifiable mechanical processes going on in the distance. It sounds like what it might like to be blindfolded and set to wandering in the back corners of a giant factory that manufactures hydraulic pipes or a smelting plant that has a wing that does industrial welding. But as the track outros the distorted sounds gives way to higher pitched metallic resonances that fade into silence like you’ve been carried free of the kind of kinetic presence of sound that can seep into your psyche after prolonged exposure and and create a vague emotional pressure that when gone feels like liberation. Listen to “WITHING THE FLESH” and take some moments to experience this passage into what it might be like to live near a factory in the mid-to-late twentieth century or more precisely what it might be like to work in one and feel the everyday weight of the industrial world on human consciousness and consider how we might improve the lives of people by giving them regular time away from that insistent, ambient presence and stimulus moving forward as a species that employs technology and allow it to make us aware of ways in which that subtle demand on our psyches are happening now that we accept as a condition of participating in civilization as we know it.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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