PRE ORDER SLOUGHED ZETA RETICULI 192091961 DOUBLE CASSETTE

Double CS44 release

1961.Betty & Barney Hill claim to be abducted by aliens who show Betty a star map, which she later sketches. Over a decade later an amateur astronomer from a small town 90 minutes from Cleveland, OH, USA determines that the map must have been from the viewpoint of Zeta Reticuli, a binary star system almost 40 light-years from earth. Decades of skepticism and humiliation follow the Hills and the study of UFOs.

2017. The New York Times publishes a story in which the US military confirms that footage released of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon is authentic, marking an historic moment in the UFO discourse. We enter an age where it is no longer an "if" regarding non-human intelligence but rather a question of when public disclosure will come.

2024-2025. Mass sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon are reported across the United States and United Kingdom. The "drone flap" as it is referred to by mainstream media has still not proven to have been any man-made objects or a coordinated effort made by any agency. These incidents persist, including most recently the shutdown of a major European airport.

And all the while, the collective human consciousness has been slowly suffocating at the hands of its own paranoia, its own panic and the realization of our own cosmic insignificance. The facades of faith, the arrogance that we are the lonely children of god not only crumbles around us, but in its stead we confront that the real gods themselves may be on their way.

It is in that context of suffocation, paranoia, collapse, and apocalypse that Sloughed has provided a soundtrack to our reality being ripped asunder. From subtle static crackling to massive walls of harsh noise, pierced with feedback and an ever-present recounting from the Hills of their experience, the listener is thrust into the discomfort of our moment. For nearly 90 minutes we are the ones being abducted, not by grey extraterrestrials, but by the sonic violence that can only be wrought by true maniacs in the harsh noise paradigm. ROMAN J/SLIT THROATS

Recorded by SLOUGHED
Mastered by FOUL PREY

Edition of 25

*THESE AIM TO BE POSTED BY 7/11/2025*