"Dave Phillips' work places the listener face to face with the uncanny nature of our current condition, a world that can feel so normal and comfortable at times but a closer inspection of any detail reveals how that feeling was always inherently a lie. Everything feels slightly off, slightly terrifying, as even the most foundational ways of being part of humanity, society, and nature feel weirdly uncomfortable in our grasp. Even if we’ve held them forever...

Although Phillips has explored a wide swath of aesthetic territory within the realms of noise and experimental music, his work has always forced the listener to face the fact that a disturbing truth lurks beneath even the most banal of human encounters.

On Human Nature Denied, Phillips draws on field recording, cut up, and dissonant string quartet, all of them feel equally terrifying. A heavy drone from a double bass unnoticeably transforms into a creaking floor while dissonant strings waiver between being real and synthesized; a harsh blast of distorted static implodes into a bubbling river; a slap across someone's face may have just been a block of wood falling to the floor; howls come from god knows what kind of animal; and the list goes on....

Listening to Human Nature Denied leaves us with a deep pit in our stomach, one that will eventually be filled by the bacteria we conveniently ignore when we see ourselves as human" (Peter J. Woods).

Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak with 16-page booklet.