PharmakonBest Pharmakon Albums Ranked
8.0
Avg Score
20
Opinions
5
Albums
8
Reviewers
Summary from 20 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Pharmakon’s catalog across 5 albums from 20 opinions, with an overall average of 8.0/10. The top-rated Pharmakon album is Devour (2019) with a 8.2/10 average from 5 ratings, followed by Bestial Burden and Contact. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2013 to 2024. Body Betrays Itself ranks as the highest-rated Pharmakon song on Rate.fm with a 8.6/10 average.
Devour
“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”
Contact
“With each of her releases under her Pharmakon banner, Brooklyn's Margaret Chardiet has reckoned with the burdens of physical existence, drinking in the horror of sentient existence through gritted teeth and barking back with hellish, blood-curdling shrieks and experimental, industrial electronics — all to gut-wrenching, visceral effect. On 2013's Abandon, Chardiet grappled with the fleeting stab”
Bestial Burden
“The sense of control Margaret Chardiet wields over her nasty, fire-breathing music provides a sense of structure that makes this very out-there music easy to grasp for those outside of noise music circles. Her work is marked by a push-and-push-harder tension between pummeling rhythms, swaths of power-electronics static, and her impressive, chilling howl.”