Genital Shame shares new single
“Down Titration Strategies”
Wellness Plan LP incoming October 30th
Erin Dawson, the mastermind behind Genital Shame, describes the upcoming LP Wellness Plan as “a process of acceptance through images of disappearing.” The contradiction between the desire to disappear and the body’s impulse to survive runs throughout the record, returning to the question of how much control we have over our own survival. Dawson’s music exists in a dissociative fog where terror, resignation, and determination become nearly impossible to separate. On Wellness Plan, Dawson widens that world, folding black metal and noise together with fragile moments of stillness.
Of the album’s latest single— “Down Titration Strategies“— Dawson comments: “I think all the time about how little upstream things (events, lingering thoughts) can have large downstream effects. This song plays with vaguely medical language to describe that snowballing effect — adjusting measurements of attachment, life-affirming positions, and self destructive tendencies.“
Dawson’s approach is informed by a background in music education and classical guitar, which she brings to her own strange iteration of experimental music rooted in black metal. Wellness Plan is harmonically dense, with riffs and melodies folding into one another in unexpected ways. It draws from a tradition of weirdo black metal that treats the genre less as a fixed language than as something to pull apart, distort, and reassemble.
Pre-order Wellness Plan here ahead of its October 30 street date and catch Genital Shame live in California:
Oct 02 Long Beach, CA – The Vine w/ Hand Model, Jenny Haniver, Tired Eyes
Oct 03 Los Angeles, CA — Oblivion w/ Slow Mass, Disheveled Cuss
Wellness Plan, track list:
- Replace What I’m After
- Down Titration Strategies
- Spiced Loam
- I Want to Die Before You
- Suicide Wellness Plan
- Nucleus Accumbens Atrophy
- Punished by Rewards
- Górecki Peace
- Gratitude Meditation
- Goodbye (I’ve Left It Open)
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