Just released this past Friday, “The Way She Was Watching Me” is a captivating slice of darkness from Chicago act uuskhy’s newly released album ‘Drain the Maker’

Full album is streaming in full here – https://soundcloud.com/uuskhy/sets/drain-the-maker-1

“On the surface, ‘The Way She Was Watching Me’ is inspired by John Fowles’ ‘The Collector’ and the dual nature of its narration (themes of duality are present throughout Drain the Maker). The book first presents a story from the perspective of a butterfly collector who abducts an art student named Miranda, after which it becomes a first-person account via Miranda’s diary. Much of the lyrical content can be interpreted from both perspectives.

The track is not about presenting the inherent shock value of the story or romanticizing its events; however, it is a reflection on the culture of appreciation shown toward work by entitled and predatory men who hide behind power and faux-sensitivity. What if a song was released that revealed its creator’s intention at face value? Would an audience still appreciate it then? At what point does cognitive dissonance become too strong?”

Drain the Maker represents the first major release of Uuskhy’s. Over the past year, Uuskhy have released a couple of experimental EPs (on Bandcamp ) in preparation of this first major release. Uuskhy are secretive about their recording process, but I do know that it’s entirely DIY.

uuskhy is a musical and performance art project that explores the dichotomy of anonymity vs. identity, particularly how it relates to self-expression through digital communication.

absorbing the ideas of another by means of the internet is a most confusing venture. everyone’s V emboldened to vomit toxic opinion via meme and message board sewers, while simultaneously presenting carefully curated insta-versions of themsel v es ….

i do it. you do it too

uuskhy is a project that exploits the dichotomy of anonymity vs. identity within myself, particularly how it relates to self-explosion through digital compression.

absorbing the ideas of another by means of my own projection is a most convincing venture.

a particular self-imposition of MIDI data. uuskhy is a project reconciling my contentious left-right brainsplit. i’m taking control of your pain.

Links:
https://uuskhy.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/uuskhy/