Boise, Idaho-based mixed-media performance artist Street Fever releases their new album, Absolution. The album is a sermon addressing recovery, faith, disruption, and perseverance. Absolution merges techno, industrial, electro, rap, hardcore, and electronic body music elements.
The artist paints a picture of sonically versatile and decimating performance art. They blend aspects of techno, industrial, electro, rap, hardcore, and EBM to bring you a gritty symphony of seductive, captivating sound full of light and transcendent energy.
After losing all their possessions, being institutionalized multiple times, and nearly losing their life in a Southeast Asian prison, Street Fever has been reborn and aims to use it as a platform to speak on their recovery and addiction. Now more than ever, they are empowered to share their story to connect with others seeking personal and spiritual growth.
Embracing 15 tracks, from a subjective perspective, entry points on Absolution include the opening track, “Trust,” travelling on infecting tones topped by potent, whispery spoken word vocals. At once mesmerizing and intense, an emotional urgency pervades the tune.
“La Corde” rolls out on eerie synths flowing into dark, industrial surfaces, groaning with aching hues. Dreamy, chanting vocals imbue the French lyrics with introspective timbres that elevate to shades of anger.
Heavy with shadowy sensuality, “Fate” features industrial harmonics riding a techno beat, mirroring the conflict between feelings and thoughts. Meanwhile, “Sensation” throbs with visceral energy, highlighted by a ferociously thumping kick drum and frenzied, techno-laced pulsations emanating strident, haunting textures.
An amalgamation of hip-hop, techno, and industrial, “Amour Votre Entite” vibrates with kinetic force and then shifts to almost orchestral washes of sound. “In Your Lungs” conjures thrumming, clotted percolations of voluptuous, wickedly thrilling industrial suggestions.
The closing track, “Asylum,” features a ghostly and ominous Phantom of the Opera-like intro. An eerie, luminous topline enters, adding to the song’s spine-chilling effect. With Absolution, Street Fever alters the language and soundscape of electronic music.
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