Venera Earns “Album Of The Day” From Bandcamp

Venera‘s new LP Exinfinite received Album of the Day honors at Bandcamp Daily on September 16. The site explains that “Venera is a duo of Chris Hunt and James Shaffer. Where Hunt’s background as a filmmaker and composer sensibly yields itself to degraded experimentation, Shaffer’s nu metal roots as the founding guitarist of Korn, make him a much more surprising candidate for an avant-garde pivot. Here, his serrated fretwork harkens the woozy ‘90s heyday of illbient. Guest features from stylish superstar FKA twigs, left-field DJ Dis Fig, and goth cult hero Chelsea Wolfe cement Exinfinite as equal parts perplexing and visceral.” Read more here.

The album is at radio now from PAN, a Berlin-based label Bandcamp says “has become entwined with atonal electronics. The Berlin-based institution has platformed records from Florian Hecker, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Lee Gamble, and others, favoring grainy sensibilities.”