Body Meat, AKA: Chris Taylor, announces his debut album Starchris, will drop on August 23rd via Partisan Records (Cigarettes After Sex, Blondshell). “Starchris is partly influenced by the intricate world building potential and storytelling of role playing video games, the album follows a transformative hero’s journey from start to finish, charting a rough trajectory through cut-scene-like moments and bosses of various difficulty levels, leading toward an ultimate moment of self-realization and peace.” Ahead of the album’s arrival, Body Meat shares “High Beams.”

Speaking on the track, Body Meat shares, “‘High Beams’ is about a programmer anxiously creating a game from within a cave. He codes all of the functionality, the rules, and physics, every parameter to his liking. He then tries to instantiate himself into this world as a copy. But an oversight within his sloppy code work creates a bug within it. His instantiated copy is unable to be removed and begins hunting him. The programmer, terrified, tries to destroy the copy of himself. Nothing he does can stop the copy from moving towards him. He starts to realize he has done this before. The copy remembers him, and knows that he has to warn the programmer. The programmer is cursed to write this code over and over again. Only the bugged copy can break the cycle.”

Since creating the moniker in 2016, Taylor’s releases as Body Meat have functioned like distinct musical sandboxes with different dimensions and house rules established for each one. Taking inspiration from early stints in Denver art-rock bands, Taylor’s music as Body Meat is rooted in piecing together the debris in the aftermath of unpredictable genre clashes and making sense of them. His singular blend of trap production and Ethiopian / funk music on his two previously released EPs, Truck Music (2019) and Year of the Orc (2021).

Body Meat
Starchris
Partisan Records
Tracklisting

1. A Tone in The Dark
2. The Mad Hatter
3. High Beams
4. Electrische
5. Focus
6. Right Here
7. Crystalize
8. North Side
9. Starchris
10. Im In Pieces
11. Demons
12. Õbu No Seirei (Spirit of an Orb)
13. Paradise

Pre-order Starchris by Bodymeat HERE