GENITAL SHAME - Wellness Plan LP (colour vinyl)

Limited edition colour vinyl. Black wax also available.

Erin Dawson’s approach is informed by a background in music education and classical guitar, which she brings to her own strange iteration of experimental music rooted in black metal.

Wellness Plan is harmonically dense, with riffs and melodies folding into one another in unexpected ways. It draws from a tradition of weirdo black metal that treats the genre less as a fixed language than as something to pull apart, distort, and reassemble.

While making Wellness Plan, Dawson encountered old microscopic footage of white blood cells searching for viruses. “I love the idea that even if you struggle with and mask a deep self-hate, there’s something microscopic inside you voting for your continued, healthy existence—even if you feel like you don’t deserve it,” she says. “It’s also about the idea that as beautiful as that image is, it’s still not quite enough.”