When My Darkness Came To Light

Following releases on Posh Isolation and Northern Electronics, Exploited Body returns to their label Changeless to present his ambitious debut album 'When My Darkness Came To Light'. 'When My Darkness Came To Light' is a subdued yet unrelentingly volatile record that examines the inescapable parallels of their depression and life as a black person. On their first solo release since 2019's 'Touching Without Feeling', their signature blistering distortion is contrasted with delicate melodies and heart-wrenching compositions that are at once deceivingly captivating and staggeringly harsh. The spiral begins with 'Still Life' where Exploited Body personifies the dichotomy between living and surviving when death manifests itself in everyday life, as bellowing synths crash into a fragile disembodied voice repeating the phrase "is it still life?". The bleak tones of the opener make way for 'Atrocity (Grievance As A Substitute For Existence)' a hauntingly somber piece that features brittle vocal melodies that dance like spectres in the midst of a raging fire. On 'Can't Wear My Skin' what begins as a rejection of self evolves into a cry to put an end to using cultures as costumes, as the artist exclaims "you can't wear my skin" from within atonal screeches. 'Relinquish' depicts defeat as skittering melodies and crushing drones wash over you like endless waves, until despair consumes the track through the piano in the outro. 'You Say My Heart's In The Right Place Even Though I'm Not In My Body' features a Finnish refrain that encapsulates the feeling of dissociation, with gaunt vocals ricocheting through the room like souls trying to find a way back into their bodies. On 'Uniform Of Brutality' the violence and cruelty perpetrated by the police take the form of an earth-shattering unstoppable wall of noise. 'Another Burial' is an arrestingly bare bones near-acoustic piece that contemplation about the fetishisation and perversion around black death that is often spun into catchphrases and hashtags instead of concrete actions. The album's closing track 'We Will Never Be Safe In This World' examines the hostile natures of the "outer world" towards black people and the "inner world" of people struggling with mental health, and how security is a luxury everyone can't afford. The album is written, produced, mixed and mastered by Nori Kin and features artwork by the visionary LA-based mixed-media artist Jesse Draxler and photography by Changeless affiliated Helsinki-based photographer Helen Korpak. 'When My Darkness Came To Light' will be released on the 9th of April via Changeless.