STYLIANOS OU - Moodtoxicosis
Released: September 10 Moodtoxicosis is a disorienting experience wrapped up neatly in the cover of an album. A loose documentation of his exhausting experience with treating thyroid cancer, the album hones in perfectly on that uneasy and uncertain feeling that one experiences when dealing with such a major health problem that may end poorly. Surviving this ordeal, Stellios brings his story here in all its lurching and unstable intricacies. The music is an absolute slew of stimuli that is erratically paced. It consistently feels like moments of barely anything happening followed by a great deal of things happening that are the sandwiching one another infinitely. A sandwich within a sandwich sandwiched by another sandwich. It is difficult to capture the actual pacing of the work here in words. The opening track “Il Castillo Del Cattivo Umore” opens with fractured vocalizations and seemingly random drum hits. It fluctuates wildly, sometimes forming the basis of a comprehensib...
