Cruel Diagonals

Los Angeles based producer and vocalist Cruel Diagonals comes to C4. Megan Mitchell will be promoting her latest release Calcite on renowned Portland, OR label Beacon Sound, a 4 track EP following up her critically acclaimed 2023 release Fractured Whole.
Calcite explores the simultaneity of an ancient mythos intertwined with an imagined future where life will no longer thrive on Earth. The album is a reverence for the geologically ancient past, conceived in and amongst the limestone and basalt formations of Southern California’s varied desert, coastal and chaparral ecosystems.
Produced, performed, engineered, and composed by Cruel Diagonals, the record features additional production from electronic producer, Joshua Eustis (Nine Inch Nails, Telefon Tel Aviv) and avant-pop producer, Liyv.
At its core electronic and unconventional, Calcite also explicitly evokes classical and folk music traditions. Mitchell’s mezzo-soprano voice resonates with clarity, only to become warped and mangled, as if struggling to be heard from an interplanetary transmission—warning of what is to come.
"a confident EP that is both science fiction story and cautionary tale, spanning the entire history of life on earth in only fifteen minutes" - A Closer Listen

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