James K - PET
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James K - PET
Holdrons Arcade
135A Rye Lane
Unit 11 Holdrons Arcade
London SE15 4ST
United Kingdom
Jamie Krasner's debut long-player as James K arrives via Dial, 1080p and her own She Rocks imprint — a singular and entirely uncompromising statement from an artist who has spent years honing her skills as singer, producer and visual artist across UNO, her collaboration with Gobby as SETH and installations for Swedish gallery Loyal. PET puts the tiny cracks and deep wounds of a whole era under the magnifying lens, turning modern solitude into a breeding ground for better times.
The album's conceptual underpinning is stated with complete clarity in Krasner's own words — a critique of the influence and effects that media has on the construction of persona, exploring fragmented and flattened identities at a moment when consumerist values were becoming a means of personal value and the spiritual sense of community had quietly vanished. "PET is the fetishised version of this infantilized person. PET is about trying to escape, but, ultimately, being owned." Shape-shifting socio-cultural motifs explored with subtle bravura across eleven tracks of dark ambient, experimental electronics and electro — a childish excursion into a world of monstrosity and innocence, delivered with the focused intensity of an artist who has thought deeply about everything they are making and why. Comes with poster.
