Bestial Burden

2014, Oct 14

Apple Spotify Bandcamp Death Industrial 96 Highly Rated Sacred Bones Records Pitchfork 8.4/10 The Needle Drop 5/10 The Line of Best Fit 9/10 NME 4/5 Rolling Stone 3.5/5 All Music 4/5 Exclaim! 8/10 Under The Radar 8.0/10 Pop Matters 5/10 Northern Transmissions 5.0/10 Spectrum Culture 90%

Pitchfork 8.4/10 The sense of control Margaret Chardiet wields over her nasty, fire-breathing music provides a sense of structure that makes this very out-there music easy to grasp for those outside of noise music circles. Her work is marked by a push-and-push-harder tension between pummeling rhythms, swaths of power-electronics static, and her impressive, chilling howl.

The Line of Best Fit 9/10 An astonishing document of the fragility of the human condition, this utterly uncompromising album is one of the year's best.

Rolling Stone 3.5/5 Check out our album review of Artist's Bestial Burden on Rolling Stone.com.

Under The Radar 8.0/10 On the eve of her first European tour, Margaret "Pharmakon" Chardiet was admitted to hospital where she had a cyst removed that had collapsed one of her organs. This harrowing experience formed the mind-versus-body concept of her new record Bestial Burden