Femme Electronica: Flesh Clink

During [the last parti ever], our resident Partigirl, Maleah, talked to Flesh Clink member Annaise about their new EP, being a Cancer, and pissing on graves.

 Okay, Annaise, I think you deserve a fucking introduction because you literally just played the best DJ set of the night.

Thank you!

Literally, I had a fucking blast. All Black Everything.

All Black Everything.

All black everything. I want to ask, it’s very general but why All Black?

Basically this is kind of a long thing between my brothers, but we did it because I wanted the album to represent  what I'm really feeling recently. I feel like there was this sense of feeling like I needed to deflect constantly, and the color black deflects light.

So, in that way, it’s just going through that journey and it’s represented in the album, but I feel that it’s also kind of explaining at the end where I found a break through. The Crest being the last song is kind of revealing how the end of the constant running away and a new beginning of something better coming that’s why it’s called the crest, cause it’s kind of like the end as it’s also just the beginning, if that makes sense.

Oh my god, okay, so it's almost like a loop around.

Yeah, I’d say so.

Okay, in terms of this album Yeah, you're practically in all black today, but you have this white hat on, is this symbolic of anything?

[laughs] It's not, but it's just cause we made our Flesh Clink hat And I wanted to showcase that cuz I think it's sick and I love the style. We want to sell this eventually as merch maybe but we'll see.

So speaking about a brother, I feel like with flesh clink - this is like the first time someone has been able to talk to you.

Yeah.

Who consists of Flesh Clink?

It's me and my two brothers. But my oldest brother and I started making music when I was a freshman in high school and he always produced. I was going through a rough time and I started screaming on the mic. That's why our first songs are very aggressive and then we started building up and yeah We made some pretty cool shit and then we started taking it seriously like three years ago I feel like?

So we've been doing this for a while And then we added our third edition which is our other brother because he's also a very talented producer. So they're both just absolutely crazy on Ableton.

On ableton? Oh my god, amazing. I love when, like, musicians literally refer to their use of Ableton, cause it's like, we know you were up on it. Oh yeah. Wait, so, were you guys doing, like, Screamo at one point?

Not too sure. If you look at, like, anti-social, it's, like, almost sort of edging towards that screamo core in a way, but it's not really technically that either.
But yeah, literally people were like, this is the most aggressive music we've ever heard in our lives.

We had to post online like, “Hey, if this is too raw for you, like that's cool, but don't listen to it”. it was all very emotional. And even to this day I feel like all our music is very emotional.

Was it ever in a way of like,“Hey guys, as a disclaimer, don't even have headphones on?”

Yeah, yeah, honestly, I'm pretty sure we did do that at some point. We were like, "don't put headphones in, because this is literally gonna fuck your ears up."

So it's genuinely been, like, a long time coming. That is such a pipeline of like, 100 percent screamo to what do we call it? — Femme. Electronic.

But moving forward, being a cancer, known as sometimes emotional, I want to talk back to blackness. Like why usage of darkness?

If cancers are so “sensitive” – Emotional, are you like the bystander?

This is a great question. I love this because I like, I feel like I was so kind and so nice for so long. And then eventually people just take advantage of that naturally. And I feel like I just came to a point where I was like, no, fuck that.

Like I'm gonna stand up for myself even if that doesn't seem okay with you and like I had to do that and transition into being like the person I am right now, so I'm a lot more grounded in ways.

Do you think when you're deflecting it comes out better through song rather than like actual speaking in conversation?

Thats a hard question. I’d say yeah ,we mirror and we deflect.

Yeah. Okay. It’s mostly just me protecting myself but being able to like adapt.

Exactly. And you're 20. So I think like, not only is this going to be the most helpful thing towards like your career and like genuinely navigating it, you're at like such an amazing point already like the music you make, you're going to have to navigate the industry, but like with the head you already have on your shoulders, it's going to be no sweat. Yeah. Even on Fucking emotional cancer. No, it's never that. We mirror.

Okay, I was talking to Davyn and you guys somehow talked about pissing on graves. A lot of you are sending a message to what I would, like, interpret as, like an arch nemesis almost? Who is this arch nemesis?

Describe the fucker who got us here.

Yeah. Ok the fucker that got us here. Well, I'm not gonna lie.. Originally, it was like completely anger towards my ex and, I don't wanna like say it here, but he just did some fucked shit, and I think I was taking a lot of my anger through the music, and my own shit, too.

Growing out of that, and realizing like, I don't need, anxiety, like I've just always been very anxious, and like, I've come to a place where I'm not anxious at all anymore, And like, I think that's really cool.

Because it takes a lot to build that up and I feel like I've reached that.

Yeah. Like literally hit that threshold.

I think it goes back to like literally just the fact that you have that 50/50, you have to head on your shoulders and like literally that's all of my questions today.

I think like, oh yeah, there's so much more to like crack out of you guys. But I think for now I don't wanna, yeah. Overwhelm you but like mama, there's so much more coming than a fucking ex. We're gonna be pissing on so much more than the grave.

With this type of music with Femme Electronica it's gonna be fuck the noise

Fuck the noise.