Flowery Speech Writes

  Andrea Pensado and Chris Strunk are Sheer Anxiety, an electro-acoustic noise duo incorporating drums, bowls, wooden objects, electronics and voice. These recordings as the cover suggests are all live performances from 2018-2025, some of these I was lucky enough to catch in person. To myself, Sheer Anxiety has been a project that constantly is crossing the line back and forth between experimental music and performance art. Without including too much theatrics or props or anything of that nature, Sheer Anxiety uses sound and improvisation itself as a way to immerse listeners and particularly triggers my imagination to think about settings and situations that these tracks would fit. Moments of suspense throughout these tracks will leave you unnerved yet not disturbed or uncomfortable enough to press pause. Every sound on this CD feels like it was intentional to put before the next pattern and it builds up like a pyramid that’s waiting to collapse a few minutes later.  Noise pro...