Cindytalk "Camouflage Heart" RE LP (2025)

Details: Cindytalk "Camouflage Heart" reissued 1984 LP (DAIS Records, 2025). Black vinyl variant. New stock sealed.

Description: "'Camouflage Heart' plays with tension and pace, from creeping to feverish to claustrophobic. The percussion moves between restless marches and barely-there pulses; for some parts, they scratched and hit a tin bath, among other objects. Guitar lines vibrate and stab as Cinder contorts her voice freely. She pulls poetry from a cerebral abyss, like "make the snake in your eye, pierce the camouflage heart" on the slow-droning centerpiece "The Spirit Behind the Circus Dream." In that register is raw power, both vulnerable and menacing, an ability to locate something deep and emotionally charged within. "I still remember that person who was way too intense for their own good," Cinder reflects. "I couldn't make a record like that now, certainly not vocally, while that anger hasn't dissipated; there's still a kind of warrior."

For all the destruction and disintegration of Camouflage Heart, Cinder maintains the objective was never full-on fatalistic; these songs seek not to destroy but to poke and provoke, to transform and heal, to find cracks of light in a crumbling world. She points to the last lines of the opening track, "It's Luxury": "Don't look down," the lyric pines through static and rhythm. Cinder extrapolates, "I'm essentially saying, just keep fucking going. As time went on, for me, that falling became flying. Camouflage Heart is the beginning of believing in flight." 

Grade: M (new stock)

TRACK LISTING:

01. It's Luxury
02. Instinct (Backtosense)
03. Under Glass
04. Memories Of Skin And Snow
05. The Spirit Behind The Circus Dream
06. The Ghost Never Smiles
07. A Second Breath
08. Everybody Is Christ
09. Disintegrate...