Khavn - Unrequited (krd-008). Album cover photo by by Katayun on Flickr.
Another homemade demo album of heartbreaking acoustic avant-pop. Consider this a collection of love songs for the bitter, the pathetic and the unrequited.
In “My Anima” Khavn sings “it’s pathetic, you’re just a dream/ like this life I’m living” and he captures the essence of this album: a constant and nagging unobtainability which has been put on a pedestal and adored as a badge of honor, emotional pain as an undeniable proof of existence.
When he sings “Nothing matters anymore” in the closing track, you understand that he actually means the opposite. Everything matters all too much and this pathos is a means for dealing with it.
Except for “Home,” the album is primarily created through acoustic guitar and raw, strained vocal cords. End result? Raw, untainted emotional patheity.
DETAILS:
Download album as a single VBR ZIP file on Archive.org.
Total runtime: 21:32
8 lo-fi mp3s encoded between 64 and 256 kbps, 44.1 kHz stereo.
Album photo credits: “Charity Case: Blinded by Love” by Katayun on Flickr.
| Audio Files | VBR MP3 |
| krd-008_Khavn – 01 – my empty chest | 1.22 MB |
| krd-008_Khavn – 02 – now | 3.81 MB |
| krd-008_Khavn – 03 – ourglass | 1.73 MB |
| krd-008_Khavn – 04 – living elsewhere | 4.00 MB |
| krd-008_Khavn – 05 – my anima | 1.49 MB |
| krd-008_Khavn – 06 – sadman | 1011 KB |
| krd-008_Khavn – 07 – the man with the hardest heart | 1.26 MB |
| krd-008_Khavn – 08 – hometown | 5.07 MB |
| Image Files | JPEG |
| krd-008 Khavn – unrequited album cover | 61 KB |
Avant-Pop! 
