How Street Fever fought through addiction and trauma to become a rave soldier
thefader.comAs Standing Rock Sioux writer and theologian Vine Deloria Jr. once said, “Religion is for people who're afraid of going to Hell.
Spirituality is for those who've already been there.” The quote, now a mantra of Alcoholics Anonymous, speaks to those who used to seek salvation at the bottom of a bottle.
On Street Fever’s new album Absolution, a gritty and gutsy maelstrom of electronic music, the Boise-based multimedia artist shares the kind of story that could only have its beginnings in the depths of addiction’s specific hell.
Released on Street Fever’s late father’s birthday, the record is as restless as any true search for redemption. Songs like “Fate” merge spectral darkwave, Hype Machine synth-pop, and grating industrial techno; others incorporate elements of horrorcore, French touch, and phonk into shadowy and ever-shifting tracks like “Sinner,” “Trust,” and “Repent.” The persistent Biblical allusions of Absolution aren’t tied to a devotion to any organized religion, but to their past loves and tragedies: the music of Parisian duo Justice and a Bible, given to them while incarcerated in a Thai prison.
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