Richie Culver – Hostile Environments

Richie Culver

Hostile Environments

Hull-born sound artist and painter simmers with resentment, finds Ian Opolot

Richie Culver · Hostile Environments

Richie Culver paints a decrepit landscape in Hostile Environments. It’s a record that features a fusion of distorted synth sounds in amongst angst-ridden utterings as the artist wrestles with his own emotional well-being. Isolation and debilitating anxiety reverberate throughout the album, a soundscape akin to a space where nothing can grow, nothing can become.

Opening track ‘Difficult’ is perhaps illustrative of Hostile Environments as a whole. Culver’s musings here include “it was far more difficult this time”. An admission of being unable to “change” meets our ears in despondent fashion. Culver’s distorted voice, lower in tone and slower in tempo, emanates the sinister despite the…

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