Released March 25th.

All mine enemys whispers - The Story of Mary Ann Cotton.  Projekt Records. Pro209
A surreal and nightmare-ish journey into the mind of a Victorian serial killer...a soundtrack to the life , and death, of Mary Ann Cotton.
"The music is a haunting brew of electronic soundscapes, neo-classical strings, and eerie children's voices. Shuffling sounds, anxiously scraped strings and electronic drones create the mood....As subtly chilling a thing as you'll ever hear..." REGEN magazine. USA

The album features the artwork of US artist Lauren E Simonutti and musical contributions from Sin D'rella of imprint, Ned Kirby of Stromkern, Erica Mulkey of Unwoman and Rasputina, Laurie Reade of High Blue Star and Pigface, Ute Mansell of Urban Sax.

The limited 1000 edition digipack includes a set of 4 reproduction victorian poison bottle labels.
You can order directly from us here... http://www.attrition.co.uk/merch.htm

"This latest CD is Martin's finest work. It becomes a soundtrack to your own imagination as it rumbles its macabre way through the half-light of a gothic Victorian nightmare. This is far more akin to the classical music genre. It's superb, and I'm proud that something as imaginative as this can come out of Coventry."   Coventry Telegraph.

"All Mine Enemys Whispers may be Martin Bowes' masterpiece..." Musictap.net

• The Story

Mary Ann Cotton was born October 1832 in County Durham , Northern England .
Possibly the greatest female mass murderer Britain has ever known, she left a trail of death throughout her life, killing between 16 to 21 of her children and former husbands over many years by arsenic poisoning .
She was eventually arrested, tried and hanged in Durham Jail on the 24th March 1873.
The Police officer that arrested Mary Ann Cotton was a Sergeant Tom McCutcheon.
Coincidentally, his daughter, Louisa McCutcheon, had worked for a while for Mary as a seamstress..
On departing for Durham jail Mary gave Louisa her prized sewing box as the only way she could now pay her for her work…
The sewing box was kept in Louisa's family and passed down through the generations.
Rather uneasily considering what it represented…
My own father met a by then very old Louisa when he was a young child in the 1940's
- He recently recounted this story and passed on the box on to me.
Louisa McCutcheon was my great great aunt….

Martin Bowes. 2007

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"Throbbing Gristle's 30th anniversary, and the industrial progenitor's reformation with The Endless Not album, almost overshadows the fact that many of the experimental and industrial groups formed in TG's wake have celebrated their 25th anniversaries — a milestone nearly as incredible. In that company can be included such European icons as The Legendary Pink Dots, Nurse With Wound, Einstürzende Neubauten and Attrition.

Formed in 1980 by Martin Bowes in Coventry, England, as a post-punk trio, Attrition's early output presaged trends that would emerge as genres of their own in the '90s gothic/industrial resurgence. Drones and tape manipulations released under the title Death House prefigured dark ambient “isolationism” by almost 10 years, while the group's first two proper albums — The Attrition of Reason and Smiling at the Hypogonder Club — set the tone for the style now known as darkwave.
Attrition had its day in the college-radio spotlight with the spooky “Monkey in a Bin,” released alongside the likes of Nina Hagen, Alan Jourgensen and Howard Jones on the 1987 Wax Trax compilation Animal Liberation (which benefited PETA). Since then, Attrition has released more than a dozen albums on such labels as Third Mind and Projekt, each one striking a balance between dualistic forces: Gloomy atmospheres mixed with prodding beats; classical bombast melded with ambient noise; Bowes' stern spoken vocals (comparable to Adi Newton of Clock DVA) juxtaposed against a series of increasingly operatic-sounding female vocalists.
The latest such singer to sign on to Bowes' long-running project is Laurie Reade, of Minneapolis darkwave duo High Blue Star. She adds what many Attrition fans consider the most emotive and expressive element yet to Bowes' assault of dark electronica, which is more concerned with enveloping listeners in a dense nebula of soundscapes than with moving bodies on the dance floor via the clichéd thud-thud of many a goth-club chestnut.
That's good, because the “baby bats” can loosen their corsets and shake off some sweat while examining Attrition's self-released best-of, Tearing Arms From Deities — it'll catch them up on what Martin & Co. were doing while Mom was changing their diapers and driving them to soccer practice. Though if anyone wants to bring Martin a cake with 25 candles, just make sure it's devil's food.
BY MANNY THEINER

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"Forever there will be the speculation that the exploration of darkness as a beautiful place will lessen our fear of it all, ease the pain a little..."

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