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Elements Conducive to Unassailable Heartbreak

by trauma sounds

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Almost five years in the making since the initial experimentation and early recording stages, trauma sounds are proud to release the arduously written and delicately crafted ambient debut 'Elements Conducive to Unassailable Heartbreak' - a heartfelt album, which is the love-child of many previous projects of lone songwriter Celeste. Written and compiled throughout the span of five years throughout 2019-2023, each song was written without an intent direction, rather being an "experiment in catharsis" to help cope with the struggles of every day living and mental health.

Originally these songs pertained to different projects / sessions Celeste undertook - all being written for and under various circumstances - ‘Elements Conducive to Unassailable Heartbreak’ was the first ever music written by Celeste and the sole reason that trauma sounds was founded, years after the conception of the art.

trauma sounds was founded in the highly eclectic music-making community of the Pacific Northwest. A one-person band that had previously been a part of To Be Gentle, Only Only, We Buried A Time Capsule In Your Backyard, Isoldeve, Ghosts on Parade, and Darjeeling Photo Club. trauma sounds is dedicated to the new chapter of sole songwriter Celeste's musical and healing journeys. Thus far, trauma sounds has released one studio album, an EP, and a handful of singles. The impact trauma sounds wants to leave on their listeners is that love is the only way out: only by true, radical love of the self and others may we find and actualize change.

Whilst very much forged from the heat of a mental breakdown, trauma sounds sprang from Celeste in dire need of a creative outlet, who came up with the titles and the artwork, established the tracks and oversaw the recording and the producing process of all the music.

'Elements Conducive to Unassailable Heartbreak' was recorded over a 5-year period throughout Celeste's life in various different places and settings across the West Coast and Pacific Northwest, with songs being written and performed in various states of psychosis. The dozens of hours worth of recorded material was then pored over and carefully edited in a brilliant, collage-like aesthetic that juxtaposed emotional guitar-scapes; extended passages of effects-laden instruments, ambient drones and viscerally moving walls of distorted reverb; atmospheric synth and loop-scapes; stirring, teeming piano; deep and obscure field-recordings; and dreamlike pads of noise. This is the sound and amalgamation of the most dynamic and serene music Celeste has yet written. There are quite simply few records of theirs' that match the album’s depth and striking virtuosic range. A veritable timestamp on their discography, it remains a brilliant listen from start to finish.

'Elements Conducive to Unassailable Heartbreak’ can be described as “where love-starved mental illness and feverish perseverance converge in tandem to tell the story of a broken inner child and their desire for something better".

Originally unintended to be released, trauma sounds is privileged and honored to call this album theirs. Released by and for healers and people who are in need of healing.

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released March 10, 2023

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Produced by trauma sounds.

Cover by Branca Studio.

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