With his debut record as Trace Amount, Brooklyn-based musician Brandon Gallagher is aiming to create a new sonic language through aggressive industrial soundscapes that land somewhere between the solo experiments of Author & Punisher and the blistering horror-metal of Uniform (the latter group’s Ben Greenberg mixed the album). In fact, in the lyric video for “Anti Body Language”—the latest cut and title track from the project slated for an April 15 release on Greg Puciato’s label Federal Prisoner—Gallagher literally invents a new language to process his distorted lyrics through.
“I wanted to make something that was striking and bold and could represent the lyrics on another level without using an existing language,” he shares of the unique lettering seen in the visual. “Every character was constructed within a hundred square pixel grid. It was one of those things that as it came together it made more and more sense with the music and overall vibe I was trying to achieve.”
Check out the relentlessly pulsing track below, and pre-order the album here.
