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Pain Palace

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about

Exactly two years after their debut album, the project formerly known as Weltschmerzen returns as Pain Palace. The project’s new moniker resolves potential confusion with the eponymous record label, but it is a change in name only // the music remains ambiguous in genre but emotionally resolute, an amalgam of approaches bound by an awareness of the remorseful nature of the world.

This is a continuity in creed rather than sound. Apart from the occasional drums // peculiarly captivating in tempo and rhythm // Pain Palace do little to invoke their first album. Despite the similar setting of an intensive week-long recording session in rural Slovakia, the trio arrives at a place that is distinct even from all their earlier projects. From a viewpoint where the world’s indifference is recognised as a landscape, the tracks are presented as seven distinct perspectives that range from brutalist chaos to tenderness but always remain compassionate.

This is best revealed in On the Height of Despair // the album’s nearly ten-minute-long climax that seemingly borders on collage only to become an engulfing suite of severe movements. The music of Pain Palace stands apart from what Tomáš Pristiak, Matus Mordavsky and Dominik Suchy create either solo or in their respective bands (Tante Elze, Tittingur), and it is the 13th release by the wistful label Weltschmerzen.

credits

released December 23, 2021

pain palace = weltschmerzen II

pain palace is Tomáš Pristiak, Matus Mordavsky, Dominik Suchy.

all music by pain palace.
indian flute and percussion on On the Height of Despair by Šimon Lupták.

recorded at Veľké Uherce and surroundings, june 2020.
additional production february - september 2021 by pain palace.
mixed and mastered by Dominik Suchy.

album cover by Natália Zajačik.
cover design by Folding Cave.

the release of this album has been supported using public funding by the Slovak Arts Council, Bratislava Self-governing Region, and SOZA.

apart // together // always.
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