ARTIST BIO: 
Morgan Garrett has long been a stalwart presence in independent American experimental music. The 2024 release of Purity on Orange Milk Records, his acclaimed fifth full length and first vinyl release, underscores his commitment to his craft and to the wider world of challenging electronic music. Purity is a response to finding a neighbor’s dead body. While processing this trauma and his own relationship with suicidal ideation, Morgan Garrett created an album of dissonance and fragile voice, oscillating between dense electric guitars and anxiety ridden whispers. This mesh of avant-garde electronics, rock instrumentation and hi-fidelity production is a new assertion in underground music.

Morgan followed this release with the "Purity USA Tour", a 46 day self-booked headlining tour extending across the CONUS, performing at venues such as Zebulon (LA), Johnny Brenda's (PHL) and Trans Pecos (NYC). The live set begins in darkness: Morgan sitting down as he nervously lines his hands through his face and hair. ASMR-like sounds of creaky floorboards, crackling fire, and industrial noise play through his PA while footlights begin to flicker. After a break of silence, Morgan explodes into song as he shreds through tracks from the LP with punishing live vocals, effected acoustic guitar, and blistering strobe lighting. The footlights and strobes cast giant shadows behind him as he flails and falls onto the ground, presenting an image like a person on fire. In full visibility, his gestures and expressions are exaggerated and extreme, reminiscent of Butoh. All the while his soaring voice and electronic avant-garde backing band crash onto the audience like a shockwave of discontent. Morgan maintains an unwavering energy throughout the duration of his 30 minute psychodrama.

Looking onwards, Morgan will tour the northeast USA with Philadelphia no-wave band Primal Rat Screw in November 2024, incorporating an additional electric guitarist into his live shows. In January 2025 Morgan will tour the EU/UK/Iceland, performing at the CTM Festival at the legendary Berlin nightclub Berghain. June 2025 plans include a 10-day Japanese tour with —–__–___ (Seth Graham + More Eaze duo), and USA dates in California. Between international tour dates Morgan will again collaborate with producer and engineer Alex Nagle on a new LP, further developing the self-existent sonic qualities of Purity.

PRESS (comprehensive list here):
Pitchfork -  Extreme Fantasy album review: "Garrett fearlessly throws himself into this legacy of confrontational music with a gripping conviction"
The Quietus - Purity album review: "Diving into the frantic instability of precarious headspace, Garrett wrestles with the sharp edges of life rather than succumb to numbness.."
Bandcamp Daily - Purity album review: "[Purity] makes for an album that always leaves you leaning in and listening closer—even as it grinds you to a pulp."
Wire Magazine - Purity album review: "an all too high fidelity snapshot of a mind threatening to come apart at the seams"
Outside Noise - Purity album review: "...a blood-curdling cry for help that rips away our sense of safety."
Bandcamp Daily - Extreme Fantasy album review: "It’s an album that never stops evolving across its brief, bracing runtime."

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