Pharmakon

Either moniker would have been an appropriately scene-setting descriptor for Saturday night's OBEY Convention show.

Gloria, Denmark on July 2, 2015

New York’s Pharmakon may be on the fantastic Sacred Bones Records but I think she’d be welcomed with open arms into a lasting relationship with Debacle Records who supplied the rest of the entertainment for the Kremwerk event here tonight.

Vancouver, Canada

But her 2014 album Bestial Burden simultaneously provoked and thrilled listeners enough to place her among the small canon of 21st century avant-garde masters.

Underneath a mechanic’s garage from the mid evening to the earliest parts of the morning the day after, there was a party in a dingy room with a single couch, a table, and a stage made out of old skids.

Toronto, Canada