Entry 4

(One part of) a split release between myself and SoCal experimental metal act S H R I E K I N G. Recorded and released during the height of the covid pandemic.

Mother Anxiety is a PNW experimental electronic project by author and musician Ben Serna-Grey. Isolation Diary is fueled by the frustration and hopelessness of every little plan falling through. Staring down the barrel of being 30 years old and feeling absolutely stuck,coming home exhausted each night after work. Temporarily living with parents before moving across the country became more permanent due to the COVID pandemic, the temporary day job at the coffee shop turned into a tenured position. Meanwhile the world, and especially America fell deeper and deeper into fascism and he found himself no longer in the town he remembered growing up, but a city full of militant and angry brown shirts. Isolation Diary is a work of mourning and frustration, of intense loneliness, and an aching for change.
Ambient, noise, industrial, folk, jazz, and classical weave together across 4 separate pieces, peppered by the occasional spoken word fragment.