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CSR 342CD
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The debut album from Bestia Astrum (aka Abby Helasdottir/GYDJA) is a grim exploration of Fury 161, the prison planet from the movie Alien. An industrial ambient travelogue of the spaces in the planet's dark and rusty facility, beginning on a wind-swept shore and ending in the eternal repose of stony sleep. More than just an alternate soundtrack to a film, Fury 161 takes cues from the long and troubled production of Alien, incorporating themes from earlier concepts proposed during its development hell, including the treatment created by Vincent Ward, who imagined the movie's location as a wooden planet that was home to an order of space monks. Motifs of eremitic religiosity permeate the album, as well as themes of Yeatsian apocalypticism, abject anatomy, and the intersection between the sacred and the profane, betwixt the beautiful and the grotesque. Full color matt-laminate digipak with gold spot color, accompanied by a 16-page booklet with an essay by Abby Helasdottir.
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