PharmakonBest Pharmakon Albums Ranked
8.0
Avg Score
18
Opinions
5
Albums
8
Reviewers
Summary from 18 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Pharmakon's catalog across 5 albums from 18 opinions, with an overall average of 8.0/10. The top-rated Pharmakon album is Devour (2019) with a 8.2/10 average from 5 ratings, followed by Bestial Burden and Contact. The discography on Wavelength spans 2013 to 2024. Crawling on Bruised Knees ranks as the highest-rated Pharmakon song on Wavelength with a 8.4/10 average.
Devour
“Devour, the fourth album by Margaret Chardiet as Pharmakon, uses self-cannibalisation as allegory for the self-destructive nature of humankind, “an instinctive inward response to a world of increasing outward violence, greed, and oppression.” This work continues the New Yorker’s reflections on tensions and connectivity between body and mind, entangled on levels from cellular to societal. As before”
Contact
“With each of her releases under her Pharmakon banner, Brooklyn's Margaret Chardiet has reckoned with the burdens of physical existence, drinking in the horror of sentient existence through gritted teeth and barking back with hellish, blood-curdling shrieks and experimental, industrial electronics — all to gut-wrenching, visceral effect. On 2013's Abandon, Chardiet grappled with the fleeting stab”
Bestial Burden
“The sense of control Margaret Chardiet wields over her nasty, fire-breathing music provides a sense of structure that makes this very out-there music easy to grasp for those outside of noise music circles. Her work is marked by a push-and-push-harder tension between pummeling rhythms, swaths of power-electronics static, and her impressive, chilling howl.”
Devour
“On the fourth full-length from her Pharmakon project, Margaret Chardiet offers an allegory for grief and the self-destructive nature of humans, joining a confrontational streak of records grappling with the suffering of cerebral and material being. The harsh compositions on this haunted offering are separated into five sweltering tracks (three on side A and two on side B) to reflect the stages o”
Devour
“Pharmakon's Devour is a caustic, malicious tour-de-force”
Abandon
“This Sacred Bones LP is Margaret Chardiet's most high-profile Pharmakon release to date, following a series of hard-to-find CD-Rs and cassettes. It takes cues from Throbbing Gristle, Swans, and Whitehouse among others, and proves a bodily, antagonistic listen.”
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