Fucked Up Empty House in the Middle of Nowhere by DJ Spacka

Many of us occasionally find ourselves dreaming of the countryside, idealizing log cabins, flowing fields, and vast sunsets. As experimental artist dj spacka points out with their record fucked up empty house in the middle of nowhere, however, rural realities hardly ever measure up exactly with these sky-high expectations. From a dark history of genocide and apartheid to a frightening future of megadroughts and superstorms, darkness weaves its way into every facet of life on the land. This album imprisons charming country and folk riffs into sparse loops with intense delay and reverb, recontextualizing the remoteness of the countryside into something threatening. Sounds of local wildlife come and go, disappearing into depths unknown, facing a fate of natural selection that would frighten even the most hardened mind. Somewhere out there, a bull faces the harrowing end of a creature stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time, starving out in the cold, reminding us with each dying breath of the future we humans face when our agriculture fails and we return to the relentless natural world.