MALWAVE‘s music was borne out of the pandemic lockdown. Music created without ever even hearing a single note played by each other. “Anguisher”, their first release, represents creative energies repurposed during quarantine, capturing the sonic highs and lows of pandemic-induced melancholia. Each track sutures together the sublime and the dissonant; equal parts escapist and alienating, alternating in volatile waves, like the pandemic itself. Like a soundtrack to 2020, each song is both a careful and a reckless navigation through the landscape. This music was created in what could best be compared to the “exquisite corpse method” of art making. Each member sat alone and recorded various unique parts and pieces on their instrument. The parts and melodies are blind between b...