Street Sects announce the release of not one, but two new full length albums. Each project explores a distinct sonic identity, unveiled under two separate monikers, STREET SECTS and STREET SEX.
The first album, Dry Drunk, will be released under the familiar name STREET SECTS, continuing the band’s legacy of genre-defying intensity. The second, Full Color Eclipse, arrives under the newly introduced alias STREET SEX, signaling an intentional split in creative direction.
Both albums were written and arranged by longtime collaborators Leo Ashline and Shaun Ringsmuth, whose artistic partnership has consistently pushed the boundaries of noise, industrial, and experimental music. The records were produced by Ben Chisholm, known for work with Chelsea Wolfe.
The band describes: "Dry Drunk is, in a way, a sort of spiritual sequel to our debut LP.
"If End Position was about the hell of active addiction, then Dry Drunk is about the hell of sobriety in a post recovery life, the mundanity, the grind, the frustration, anger and resentment that can build while attempting to adhere to a more normal, risk averse lifestyle without working a "program", and without doing "the work".
"Dry Drunk sits on one side of the street, clinging to sobriety with white knuckle desperation, locked in an unfulfilling routine, peering out the window with belligerent rage, with jealousy and longing, eyes fixed on what’s happening across the street... what it wants but can no longer have......."
For their newfound project, they add: "Across the street is Full Color Eclipse, a record which exists in the neon drenched nightclubs, the ‘by the hour’ hotel rooms, and the open air drug markets. It is about sex, hedonism, vice, recklessness, and indulging in fantasy and exploration without fear of consequence.
"These two records sit across the street from one another not only in a thematic sense, but in a stylistic sense as well. Dry Drunk continues in our previously established palette of experimental, sample-based industrial noircore.
"Full Color Eclipse is us leaning into our love for pop music, melody, hooks, and higher production values. It's our attempt at writing songs that might be (in some fucked up alternate reality) considered "fun". "
Both new tracks are available as a feature length animated video.
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