Pharmakon: Abandon – Sb 15 Year Edition – Black White & Orange Starburst
Margaret Chardiet was born and raised in New York City. As a founding member of the Red Light District collective in Far Rockaway, NY she has been a figurehead in the underground experimental scene since the age of seventeen. She
describes her drive to make noise music as something akin to an exorcism where
she is able to express, her “deep-seated need/drive/urge/possession to reach other
people and make them FEEL something [specifically] in uncomfortable/confrontational ways.” Engineered by Sean Ragon of Cult of Youth, Abandon is
Pharmakon’s first proper studio album and also her first widely distributed
release.
The songs on this album were all written and recorded during a turbulent three
month time period during which several fundamental life changes forced her to
begin living in a completely new way and in a new space. She describes the lyrical
themes of this album as being about “Loss. Losing everything. Relinquishing
control. Complete psychic abandon. Blind leaps of faith into the fire, walking out
unscathed. Crawling out of the pit.”
Sacred Bones is now repressing this legendary debut on colour vinyl for the very
first time in celebration of the label’s 15th year anniversary.
