Ad noiseam adn29 - Release date: october 2003
Full length CD

MP3s:
-Fashion Victim (complete track) , 3min 16s, 1.5 Mbytes
-Redline version (complete track) , 4min 18s, 2 Mbytes
-Philistine (excerpt) , 2min 10s, 1 Mbyte

Following their recent “Monster Music” EP (adn28) , Larvae present here their first full length album, “Fashion Victim”. The most ambitious work of these American artists to date, this album is also the culminating point of a painstaking improvement, research and mixing of influences. Powerful, intelligently written and uncommonly diverse, “Fashion Victim” is an album which goes back to the essence of a real music album, for its tracks are coherent, linked into a whole, and yet possess quality which could make each stand on its own.

“Fashion Victim is about my frustration with fashion, image, and superficiality taking precedent over substance” says Matthew Jeanes of Larvae. And indeed, this album is one of rich content. While drawing its influence from drum'n'bass, illbient, electronica and noise, this album lets the genre classification to pigeon-holing reviews, and relies on its powerful function to overcome the form. Adds Jeanes: “the music is at times angry, at times it sounds defeated and sad, and it's always a bit of a protest.”

And yet this is not a CD who will delight lovers of fine music only, for Larvae aim at producing a music that can be enjoyed. From the drum of “I owe you” and “Crazyeye” to the bass of the title track and “Tonystark”, this album is something that will bring feet and heads in motion.

Ad Noiseam is very proud to be able to present “Fashion Victim”, an album of uncommon impact and talent, which is assured to charm by both the force of its music and the wit of its composition. A work that goes beyond classification and has to be recognised as such.

Tracklisting:
1. Refuse
2. Kelvin (Genetic Mix)
3. Fashion Victim
4. I Owe You
5. Redline Version
6. The Voice Collapse
7. Philistine
8. Unbranded
9. Tonystark
10. Crazyeye

Written and Produced by M.Jeanes
Except Track 2, by M.Jeanes and Genetic
Mastered by James Salter
Larvae is M.Jeanes, C.Burnett, B.Meng

Larvae: www.zeroplate.com

Other releases by Larvae on Ad Noiseam:
-"Loss Leader" - adn101
-"Dead Weight" - adn62
-Enduser & Larvae "Unraveled Ears " - adn61
-"Empire" - adn48
-"Monster Music" - adn28