Californian artist Elon Katz (Diagonal, Cititrax / Minimal Wave, Hippos In Tanks) releases 2nd solo album RUBBERNECKING IN VERTIGO, his first in 7 yrs

It is with reflexive apologies and sanguine affirmations as the Los Angeles label Zero Grow releases the second Elon Katz album, 'Rubbernecking In Vertigo'.

'Rubbernecking In Vertigo' is a brazen album of introspective vocals and electronics slowly crafted and fermented throughout the seven-year period since 'The Human Pet' (Diagonal, 2016). Across ten songs Elon Katz performs a synthesis of genres - pulling from art rock, electronica, industrial and avant-garde musics - marrying singer-songwriter tendencies with sonic experimentalism and cynical wit.

Lyrical songs swirl around obtuse digital timbres, anchoring low-end and scratchy rhythms while featuring string instruments like cello, fretless bass and electric guitar; blending it into a discombobulating context, mixing the electronic idiolect of Elon’s work with the artist’s early influence of weird Californian music from The Residents' Ralph Records anti-pop, to Mr. Bungle’s metal-concrète tomfoolery, and Beck’s trip-hop folk.

On 'Rubbernecking In Vertigo', words and voice are the main focus, relying less on mutant processing, instead using the electronic foundations of the music as a soapbox. Teetering in between sincerity and satire, the album’s content is hyperreal and droll, musing about the place where psyche collides with the whims of culture and technology. Themes of cultural-stagflation are illuminated through images of patriotism as counterculture, fornicating like a franchise, securitizing one’s ego and the accumulation of zeros; digesting the perplexing current epoch with Katz’s signature paranoid drama and skeptical absurdity.

'Rubbernecking In Vertigo' is out now on digipak CD and digital formats with artwork featuring images of ceramics by the artist’s father Benjamin Katz and design by Daniel Letson (Motoko & Myers, DJML).

Tracklisting

1 My Human Capital

2 Sexy Clemency

3 Feckless and Fecund

4 Freeway

5 Invest in Yourself

6 Piss Drink

7 Dream Die

8 True True True

9 Rubbernecking

10 No Vertigo