Burlington, VT duo first known use arrives with "Synthesis," the track from their EP Yielding, carrying a philosophy that reframes what making music even means. Izze Kaukonen and Ethan Fitzpatrick built this project around the conviction that songs exist independently of the people who find them and that writing recording are acts of capture, not authorship. It's an unusual place to start, and it quietly changes how you hear music this aggressive.
The first known use moniker is derived from the idea that us as musicians are not the source material for our music; songs are something which exist outside of us. The process of writing, recording, and playing is a process of capture and translation, not creation.
"Synthesis" lands somewhere in the noisier, more disorienting reaches of industrial rock: dense, relentless, and deliberately overwhelming. The vocals are so submerged in distortion and reverb that they function less as a lead performance and more as another texture in the surrounding chaos. Given the band's philosophy, that feels less like a production choice and more like a logical conclusion. If the self is not the source, why should the voice stand apart from the sound?
The aggression never reads as performance. It reads as conviction two people working from home in Vermont, recording something they believe they're uncovering rather than building.
