Paralytic Stalks

Pop · 2012 · 9 tracks · 57m

Paralytic Stalks

A dense, confrontational collision of avant-garde orchestral arrangements and raw emotional collapse. Pop music pushed to its most dissonant and desperate edge.

It's like a beautiful pop song having a nervous breakdown in the middle of an orchestra pit.

A relentless, confrontational exploration of psychological distress wrapped in complex, avant-garde orchestration.

Paralytic Stalks · vs · of Montreal

Thunderstorm+4.0σ

Thunderstorm saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 9 Tracks · 57m

01

Gelid Ascent

4:09

02

Spiteful Intervention

3:38

03

Dour Percentage

4:35

04

We Will Commit Wolf Murder

5:29

05

Malefic Dowery

2:37

06

Ye, Renew the Plaintiff

8:46

07

Wintered Debts

7:34

08

Exorcismic Breeding Knife

7:40

09

Authentic Pyrrhic Remission

13:15

Moments Worth Waiting For

The sudden shift from a jaunty piano melody into a terrifying wall of dissonant violins in track 4

The raw, unhinged vocal delivery during the climax of the eight-minute centerpiece Ye, Renew the Plaintiff

The final thirteen minutes where melodic pop dissolves into a soundscape of pure abstract noise and field recordings

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