Violent Scenes – Angels Are Mathematical – 10″

Track Listing

Theory Of Language
Living In The Rooms
To My Whiteness
The Glaciers Pass

Notes

Can songwriter music in English truly fuse with a sound that stretches, evaporates, and mutates into something boldly experimental? The Apulian collective Violent Scenes answer with a quiet but resounding yes. Over nearly a decade, they have carved out a language where post-rock, psychedelia, and ambient-glitch electronics don’t just coexist, but dissolve into one another like pigments in water.

Now, that language finds its most focused expression in their new EP, “Angels Are Mathematical.” Recorded on tape with Sacha Tilotta (Uzeda, Three Second Kiss, June of 44) and released via Almost Halloween Time Records, the record feels less like a collection of songs and more like a system of signals, flickering between the human and the artificial.

At its core, ‘Angels Are Mathematical’ explores the mutation of technological language and the growing solitude of the individual within the circuitry of postmodern life. The EP drifts through a landscape where communication becomes code, and code becomes distance. The human voice, once central, now echoes as if transmitted from another room, or another reality.

This tension is not new. In the 1960s, ethologist John Bumpass Calhoun imagined the collapse of society through overcrowding and emotional detachment. A decade later, mathematician Kurt Gödel used the precision of logic to gesture toward the existence of God. Between these two poles, collapse and transcendence, Violent Scenes position their work: suspended, searching, unresolved.

The band’s multidisciplinary path feeds directly into the EP’s atmosphere. Their past projects span theatre, live scoring, and hybrid performances that merge music with poetry, cinema, and visual art. They have reinterpreted works like Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me by David Lynch and Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion by Hideaki Anno, not as tributes, but as terrains to inhabit and reshape. That same approach permeates this release: nothing is quoted, everything is absorbed and transformed.

After more than a hundred concerts across Italy and a 30-day U.S. tour in 2023, the band returns with a work that feels both intimate and disorienting, like a voice speaking softly through static. “Angels Are Mathematical” is not an answer, but a transmission, a fragile geometry of sound trying to trace what remains of the human inside the machine.
Violent Scenes don’t offer resolution. They offer a litany, a repetition against disappearance, a way of staying human while everything else turns into signal.

released May 22, 2026

Album credits

Giorgio Cuscito: vocals, bass, chalkboard
Gianfranco Maselli: guitars, bass, vocals
Gianvito Novielli: guitars, bass, programming
Antonio Iacovazzi: drums, beatbox, noise box

Recorded on tape with Sacha Tilotta (Uzeda, Three Second Kiss, June of 44)

Artwork by Luigi Falagario