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A Place Of Hurt

by THE BEDROOM WITCH

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about

The Bedroom Witch, Los Angeles-based dark synth pop project of performance artist Sepehr Mashiahof, has just announced A Place of Hurt, an album that examines the chambers of the heart while breaking them into a million pieces. Multilayered with both introspective and wider social metaphors, APOH addresses the fear of abandonment, hesitance to feel or receive love, self sabotage, and romanticization of pain that comes with finding love as a trans woman who feels out of place in society.

In A Place of Hurt, deep evocative synths permeate the album with thumping, insistent percussion throughout. Nuanced layers of electronics seem at once ancient and timeless, blended with haunting vocal performances and romantically complicated sonic architecture. The Bedroom Witch breathes life into every cavernous drum hit and synthesizer stab with her inviting and complex production, fantastical storytelling and masterful narration through voice and sound. Intelligently and selectively pulling tiny embellishments from synthwave, EBM, synth pop and adjacent genres all while making a sound all her own, in A Place Of Hurt Mashiahof beacons to a nostalgic past, if only for a moment, before carrying us into the warm futuristic unknown.

APOH is described as a “love letter to heartbreak in the city” because it reflects on the confusing and crowded paths Mashiahof — or her character, The Bedroom Witch — takes to form human connections, find love, and self-actualize while combating societal dogmas projected onto her identity. Throughout the album, the sounds of a city grind against lush synths and angel-demon croons. Car tires screech above wistful synth lines and give way to shattered glass, while hypnotic sirens bleed into dissociative 80s drum machines.

Mashiahof has found that heartbreak exists in many forms beyond romantic love. “Society can break your heart, inability to show up for yourself can break your heart, a bad dream can break your heart,” she states. “As a Persian immigrant, exile can break your heart. But there’s also so many underlinings of hope in the album. There’s the hope to heal from the addictive, obsessive behavior that comes with a traumatized self, and the hope to one day be carried by love and support without feeling shame.”

“Above all,” Mashiahof states, “APOH is about yearning for and manifesting transformations, honing the ability to alchemize pain into power, and the puzzle piece effect of turning a fragmented self into something that feels whole and complete.”

As a conceptual artist, The Bedroom Witch has spent years building imaginary worlds, inviting us into the parallel universes of “Nowhere” and “Exile”. Both stand as metaphors to places in her life, with one being the homeland Iran and the latter being the United States. APOH takes place in "Exile" and serves as the prequel to her 2019 concept album Diaspora, which chronicles the fantasy journey from Exile to Nowhere. APOH pre-releases on September 14, 2022 and releases DATE, 2023 on Psychic Eye Records and Ratskin Records.

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released November 4, 2022

Cover artwork: Gabriel Gamboa

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Ratskin Records is a collective record label and archival imprint championing decolonial experimental music centered in the Bay Area and beyond . We collaborate with and are in community with LGBTQ+, Black, Native, POC, and disabled artists who create work that is sonically and politically pushing boundaries toward liberation. ... more

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