Little is known about the identity of anonymous Boise-based EBM figure Street Fever beyond tales of overcoming addiction and time spent in an East Asian prison, which have continually shaped the project into its cathartic form of dance music. Yet after releasing a series of industrial techno records over the past decade, they once again materialized last year to lend their aesthetic sense to remixes on collections from like-minded projects including feminist darkwave outfit Patriarchy and Chino Moreno’s occult-electronic side-project †††.
Street Fever returns today with a new single of their own called “Sinner,” a dark, coursing techno cut that aims to soundtrack the same cyber-thriller agenda recent tourmates HEALTH have been pushing since the late aughts. Meanwhile, the vocals bring to mind the intensity of radical hardcore trio Show Me the Body’s live show. "I wrote ‘Sinner’ as a call for inner strength for myself and those suffering around me,” the artist shares. “An encouraging invitation to personal poetic freedom. I pushed myself to reclaim my power, to transcend inner and external boundaries.”
Meanwhile, the track’s video is a work of art all its own: Scenes of Street Fever’s aggressive live show are intermixed with “spontaneous acts of poetic terrorism” as well as a photoshoot that sees the artist covered in black paint and writhing on a cross. “I ventured into sacred spaces, such as temples, churches, art institutions, and once the headquarters of the Latter Day Saints,” they share. “In these spaces I held renaissance poses for extended periods of time, shredding art, and dousing myself with water while masked. I felt compelled to document a handful of these thought-provoking acts while I toured the United States to give my audience a glimpse into a different form of expression and performance I had previously been known for.”
Check out the self-directed video below.
