Name: Personal Space
Brand: The Lowest Form

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Bonus disc: No

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harbinger153

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2016-11-25

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Signed copies: No

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Standard:20

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5023903278050

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Lowest Form

Genre GB

Punk / Hardcore

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Harbinger Sound

Harbinger Sound is a long-running U.K. label that has been dedicated to avant-punk, post-punk, experimental noise, and more. Led by Steve Underwood, the label has been at the forefront of pushing boundaries in underground music for years.
In the Spring of 2021, Harbinger Sound unfortunately went into liquidation. Despite this setback, they left their mark with a final release for Girls In Synthesis as part of Record Store Day.
Throughout its existence, Harbinger Sound has consistently championed innovative and boundary-pushing artists within the alternative music scene. With an impressive catalog of releases and a reputation for quality and authenticity, Harbinger Sound remains an influential force in independent music.

The second album from UK hardcore engine The Lowest Form, Personal Space sees the band cutting through a comedown fug of feedback, sharp butterfly knife guitars flashing deadly over a waste ground rubble of noise. Songs drawn up from discord, songs of marshalled cacophony, coils of scratching guitars break apart and reform, coalescing around insistent basslines and heavy drumbeats, before splintering again. It's hardcore constructed from textured noise as much as from breakdowns and riffs, rumbling infectious chants emerging from the wavering clamor, the vile keening of consciousness's half-known edges, noise in the grain of it all, noise as bedrock, an abrasive acid bath of fuzz, susurration and machine whirr. "Smash My Fuckin' Head Against the Wall" is the line that opens it up, rising out of Interplanetary Bad Boy's hissing swell. Driven through the album are anguished explorations of interior / exterior limits, whirling around viciously in the grubby borders of your skull, spinning hopelessly in the cosmic of the aether, untethered, higher than the sky but way down in the muck. From Gak Attack's claustrophobic pogo or Last Smash's drawling thump to Star Slammers manic tumble and Dread Future's rolling barrage, The Lowest Form have brought together another LP of murdered-out panic attack punk, lithe and unleashed, born of bad vibes and background radiation, an album at once uncomfortably close and fully heavy.

Personal Space

Music GB