Lounge-grunge project Pay Dirt released a new single. Drawing on themes of liberation and freedom, Gnat Bowden sings with a commanding presence, telling someone to shed their skin and show their true form. They beg this person to know how many acres of themself they are willing to give, accompanied by resonant saxophone passages and a haunting gothic atmosphere. Bowden
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PAY DIRT is new side project of conceptual/performance artist Kleaner which finds them exploring drone and noise territories. “MOB” is their debut release, being a seven-minute composition of rumbling distortions and clangorous crashing sounds. It’s got an ominous atmosphere like we’re anticipating something about to happen in a psychological horror movie. We hope to hear more from PAY DIRT and
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MURDER ZONE, Kleaner’s gothic side project, released a new album this week. It’s ten tracks, beginning with the three-part “MUTINY” series, carrying the ominous cries of Party Clown with foreboding bass guitar and sparse rhythm beneath. Themes of consequences, low blows, ruined hearts and birds of prey are ruminated on. MURDER ZONE brings a haunting Valentine’s Day installation with “MISERY
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MURDER ZONE is a side project of KLEANER’s in which they expand their production, and they’ve got a new EP out under the name. These four tracks bring the same cryptic, ominous mood with haunting imagery that KLEANER is known for but with more emphasis on guitars and drums. The EP is concluded with a cover of a traditional folk
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Conceptual-performance artist KLEANER released a new EP this past week. It’s four tracks of gothic no-wave, created with ominous bass guitar and drum machine underneath Gnat Bowden’s powerful poeticism. KLEANER channels the pains of abandonment, love and lack thereof, and being haunted by a past lover’s face with “BASEMENT.” KLEANER will be at Cactus Club tonight alongside Primrose, Special Interest
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Conceptual performance artist Kleaner is out with a new album. It’s nine gothic tracks of bass guitar and drum machine that channel painful scenarios such as being a fool for love, catching a lover red-handed, and fearing abandonment; the album seeks truth, liberation and healing similar to Kleaner’s last EP “First Ladies.” They recently told us in a spotlight that
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Promises is a new bar and live music venue in Walker’s Point located where what was previously Walker’s Point Music Hall. They hosted a spectacular night of live music on Monday featuring local acts Kleaner, Scam Likely and Delicious Monsters as well as Buffalo, New York’s industrial hardcore punk band Science Man. Kleaner is the conceptual artistry project of Gnat
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Conceptual artist Kleaner released a new album not too long ago. It’s six tracks; there’s a gothic atmosphere with no wave sensibility here, utilizing resonant guitar melodies with light percussion on a few. Kleaner’s vocals convey visceral poetic passages of haunting, love, demons, and saving oneself. Kleaner warns to not play games with their open heart with “First Ladies.”
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