Cipher Productions

This new album, presented by SSSM, finds Sissy Spacek working in a distinctly musique concrète mode. It’s a dynamic, untamed collage assembled from electronics, acoustic instrumentation, and voice—cut, spliced, and reconstituted into something that feels at once immediate and disorienting. The record moves with restless energy, embracing abrupt shifts, dense layering, and moments of uncanny clarity that surface and dissolve without warning.

A notable aspect of this release is its vocal presence, which threads through the compositions with slurred ambience—a clear nod to Wiese and Aaron Hemphill’s project Strain of Laws, with the voice functioning less as a narrative anchor and more as a volatile material within the larger sonic architecture.

The lineup brings together a formidable group of longtime collaborators and core contributors. Alongside Sissy Spacek mainstays John Wiese and Charlie Mumma, the album features Mitchell Brown (Gasp, LAFMS), Aaron Hemphill (Nonpareils, Liars), and Jay Randall (Agoraphobic Nosebleed). Each brings a sensibility, resulting in a
record that feels both cohesive and constantly in flux, shaped by the friction and overlap between these varied pallets.