25
August
2015
“A Bone Case for Papery Skin”, the second album by the Danish experimental act PICTURE ANN, was released on CD by 9thMeridian Records on August 19. The album is also available for streaming in its entirety via the band’s official Soundcloud profile as well as digital purchase via Bandcamp. The album is the second full-length assault following the 2010 debut album, “Blaspheme 2009”, and contains 8 haunting and strangely unsettling songs of a lo-fi nature that will flush your day right down the toilet. The CD version contains a 12-minute bonus track entitled “Hjemkomst” that will drag all you moody suckers out there through the mental mud.
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“A Bone Case for Papery Skin” track listing:
1. Sanguinary Light
2. Last Ditch Believers
3. Rituals of Decay
4. Shore Sermons
5. Ugly Siren
6. The Devastating Loneliness of Dante
7. The Surrender of Four
8. Missings and Captures
9. Hjemkomst (CD bonus track)
In other news, “Rituals of Decay”, a single lifted from “A Bone Case for Papery Skin”, is available for download (Amazon, iTunes, etc.) and streaming (Spotify, Deezer, etc.) on most digital platforms out there. It was released on Friday, February 13, 2015.
“Secret Noir Agent”, a single lifted from the 2013 compilation album entitled “Triarchy”, is also available for download (Amazon, iTunes, etc.) and streaming (Spotify, Deezer, etc.). The track was recently re-mastered and is therefore exclusive to this digital single release, which came out on May 18.
The latest album, “The Darkness Had Texture”, was released digitally in late January this year and is available for streaming (Bandcamp, Spotify, etc.). The album is the third full-length assault following the 2014 album, “A Bone Case for Papery Skin”, and contains 5 mournful tunes, all of which were composed and recorded solely by J.N. throughout 2014.
“The Darkness Had Texture” track listing:
1. You Paint Your Chains
2. The Darkness Had Texture
3. I Want This Room in Pieces
4. Closed off Entirely (The Segue)
5. You Use the Word Like a Curse

