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1.	Tone Proem 03:32	info
2.	Defences Against Emptiness 05:25	info
3.	The Everyday Gets In The Way 04:10	info
4.	Insisting On Existing 05:59	info
5.	The Fate You Can’t Negotiate 09:21	info
6.	Fighting The Lightning 06:30	info
7.	Erutrevo 04:57	info
8.	Attacking The Vacuum 03:40	info

about

This ‘Diary’ was imagined and recorded during Covid lockdowns in 2020-2021. The ‘Destruction’ in the title refers to specific personal circumstances as well as the more general virus threat and its unprecedented effects on our lives.

We never imagined it as a depiction of anything else. It was an escapist focus while confined inside, unable to meet up and unable to travel.

This was - and is - the point of ‘Diaries of Destruction’: if it’s about anything it’s about creation and valuing the creative process of life itself; choosing a way beyond what’s destroyed, somehow getting through unsettling times, rather than giving in to despair.

Covid hasn’t gone - it’s evolving - but just as it’s begun to seem more manageable and even forgotten by some, a very different and senseless destructiveness threatens another place, people and way of life. Few imagined it at the start of this year, that one choice would take away so many others, crashing nightmares of the past back into the present. The future seems even more uncertain, and the long ways to defuse and rebuild far from clear.

We’re choosing to release Diaries of Destruction at the spring equinox, when light overtakes darkness in this part of our shared pale blue dot with its cycles of destruction and creation. Any ‘pay as you want’ donations will be sent to UNICEF, the United Nations agency that provides humanitarian aid to children worldwide.

credits

released March 20, 2022

Michael Bearpark: Guitar, Morleytron
Hazal Elif Yalvaç: Baritone guitar, Game Boy, field recordings, synths, drum programming
Arber: Guitar, found sounds, synths, drum programming
Bryan Beller: Bass, bass solos (Defences Against Emptiness)
Duf: Bass (Fighting The Lightning)

Recorded and mixed by Arber at Doom Studios, except Insisting on Existing and Attacking the Vacuum recorded and mixed by Elif Yalvaç

Mastered by James Edward Armstrong

Produced by Diaries of Destruction

Artwork: Arber
Cover image: Joe Bearpark

Executive Producer: Michael Bearpark

Special thanks: Bryan, Duf, James, HiFi Sean, James Sidlo, Fryette for GP/DI, Charles Fernyhough, Viktor Frankl

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