Chasms is the Los Angeles based project of Jess Labrador. She crafts percussive dirges that are at once beautiful and menacing. Labrador's haunting vocals and hypnotizing guitar work wade between rhythmic bass lines and bursts of stinging feedback, laid on a bed of pummeling drum programming. The project’s affinity for industrial rhythms, swelling textures, precise minimalism, and chaotic eruptions of noise sounds as equally informed by shoegaze as drone and doom metal—to choose just one would be a disservice.
The duo have been active since 2012. They’ve released the When It Comes EP (Dream, 2012), Riser (Dream, 2014) EP and the "Bad Evolution" single (Sleep Genius, 2012) before joining Felte. They then collected a majority of the two EPs on the Subtle Bodies compilation album (Sleep Genius, 2014).
