Image via the artist's Soundcloud
Streetwalker and White Car member Elon Katz is dropping his new solo LP The Human Pet in May. The former Hippos In Tanks affiliate has embraced an arthouse aesthetic as of late, and unsurprisingly had more to offer about his new album than the usual affair of a press release, providing instead a disturbing portrait of himself and issuing the following directives:
2. Immovable
3. You Are Alone
4. The Human Pet
5. Unarmed
6. Clean Crash
On paper, the human pet sounds like a hybrid between a dog and cat (or a dog and a Katz?). In action, however, Katz inches somewhere closer to a ghost in the machine. On his new single "Immovable," the musician explores a sound that he has has termed "citrus pop," which imagines pop tunes as if composed by cyberpunks, with an otherworldly melodic refrain, dark arpeggiatted keys, an heavily processed vocals that at times begin to sound like a sunnier Skinny Puppy. Listen to it below the tracklist.The Human Pet is out on with Diagonal on May 12.Tracklist1. The Rhino Powder of New SensitivityELON KATZ — THE HUMAN PET [DIAG029]
12052016 — LP + DigitalCARE INSTRUCTIONS:
The Human Pet is always hungry.
The Human Pet can only be satiated with attention and sustenance.
The Human Pet is highly obedient, but also opinionated.
The Human Pet does what it pleases, and is often punished in exchange.
The Human Pet is socialized, but takes some acclimating to new situations and environments.
The Human Pet requires open space to avoid neurosis.
The Human Pet is sweet and fun, but has a vicious bite and bark.
The Human Pet is a loving companion to its master.
2. Immovable
3. You Are Alone
4. The Human Pet
5. Unarmed
6. Clean Crash