Jaw Removal Surgery by Beachgrave

The latest from British breakcore artist Beachgrave provides the soundtrack to the unrestrained motion sickness of the digital age. This tape, called Jaw Removal Surgery, busts down the door with frantic drum beats and icy synths that sharpen the music’s edge. More than just celebrating anxiety, Beachgrave relishes in the mid-day jitters of a dopamine addict who feels overwhelmingly busy despite hardly moving a muscle. Progress no longer matters; instead, the speed of movement defines one’s output, regardless of direction.

Seeing such a reflection of the speed with which we live our daily lives helps snap us out of the delusion that anything we’re experiencing qualifies as anything close to normal or acceptable. Jaw Removal Surgery takes every opportunity to be noisy while remaining razor-sharp, channeling everything into a high-pitched rhythm machine that never gives the eardrums much of a chance to settle back into place. Just picture your brain operating on this album’s plane of existence whenever you scroll tiktok for hours on end, and you may start looking for emergency off ramps to address the catastrophic disconnection in your brake line.

-Michael