Set for release on 22nd November via independent Jordan-based label Drowned By Locals, Religious Equipment is Richie Culver’s debut full-length under his Quiet Husband alias. The album drills deep into the gritty depths of industrial techno and noise, pulling no punches with a set of tracks named after opiate blockers or substitute drugs, which serve as sonic stand-ins for suppressed urges, blurring the line between resistance and surrender.
It draws on the brutal, repetitive rhythms of techno, while spoken word passages—including one featuring his mother—cut through the chaos with a deeply personal narrative. From the gates of hell to the empty solace of noise, the album paints a harrowing portrait of addiction and substitution, where noise becomes a proxy for silence and intensity replaces numbness. Out today, Berlin-based multi-disciplinary visual artist Zeynep Schilling has directed a suitably powerful video for pulsating and visceral new track Buprenorphine.
Known for her unique artistic vision, she has this to say about it. "The video of Buprenorphine presents a journey through a never-ending reel of chaos, live recordings, and found footage portraying an endless stream of disasters in a relentless "feed of doom." It explores deep-seated anxieties, trapping viewers in a hypnotic loop of destruction as if the world is caught in a cycle of collapse that can never be escaped.”