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Disambiguation

243.4K streams

243,442

Pulse of Indignation

83K streams

83,006

Fractured Whole

76.4K streams

76,389

A Dormant Vigor

10.6K streams

10,635

Precipice

1K streams

10,042

Vestigial Mythology

7.2K streams

7,151

Heavy Is The Sea

2.7K streams

2,676

Monolithic Nuance

2.6K streams

2,622

Null and Devoid

2K streams

1,954

Fall Back into Earth

Biography

Since 2016, Los Angeles-based multimedia artist, Cruel Diagonals (aka Megan Mitchell), has been creating critically acclaimed experimental electronic music and intriguing visuals. Though classically trained as a vocalist and well-versed in jazz standards as a youth, Cruel Diagonals applies her brilliant voice to compositions and improvisations that are the antithesis of staid tradition or arid academic exercises. Rather, she optimizes her minimal gear setup with an instinctual adventurousness and an acute sense of the most chilling and moving atmospheres and timbres, favoring fluidity of tones over the grid-like modes of much electronic music. Cruel Diagonals augments these elements with exquisite vocalizations and field recording extracted from decrepit industrial sites and West Coast nature zones in order to reveal their expressive properties, thereby forging a unique sonic palette. Making the ineffable deeply intimate, Cruel Diagonals is a surrealist sound sorcerer who is just beginning to journey through labyrinths of her own enigmatic design.