Justin Meyers uses emergency surgery as inspiration for new album, premieres animated video

Justin Meyers uses emergency surgery as inspiration for new album, premieres animated video

There’s a gravity that haunts Justin Meyers’s forthcoming album, Negative Space (1981-2014), his most recent full-length work following last year’s joint album with Jason Lescalleet. After ending his experimental label Tone Filth and creating another experimental label, Sympathy Limited, Meyers grew ill near the end of spring 2014. As he states on Sympathy Limited’s site: “A major digestive organ had perforated and needed to come out; I had emergency surgery that night. What I am left with is a physical affliction I will carry with me the rest of my life.”

Now, nearly two years later and through numerous adjustments physically, mentally, and musically, Justin Meyers — artist, experimental musician, and friend of the site — returns with Negative Space (1981-2014), an eight-song album of cogent thought, often claustrophobic and grave. It features a mixture of existing productions and field recordings that were “captured and directly related to [his] physical restrictions and recovery,” described by Meyers as an “electroacoustic statement and narrative of recovery.”

Tiny Mix Tapes has the pleasure of premiering the video for “Trapped Music / Exit Interview,” which was made by Meyers himself. Check it out below, and pre-order Negative Space (1981-2014) here. First 100 LP orders get a Sympathy Limited logo lapel pin.

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