“Devour, the fourth album by Margaret Chardiet as Pharmakon, uses self-cannibalisation as allegory for the self-destructive nature of humankind, “an instinctive inward response to a world of increasing outward violence, greed, and oppression.” This work continues the New Yorker’s reflections on tensions and connectivity between body and mind, entangled on levels from cellular to societal. As before”
“Pharmakon's Devour is a caustic, malicious tour-de-force”
“On the fourth full-length from her Pharmakon project, Margaret Chardiet offers an allegory for grief and the self-destructive nature of humans, joining a confrontational streak of records grappling with the suffering of cerebral and material being. The harsh compositions on this haunted offering are separated into five sweltering tracks (three on side A and two on side B) to reflect the stages o”
“With one of her most harrowing and powerful albums to date, Margaret Chardiet zeroes in on the locus where global horrors register on the individual.”
