Estado Impuro -aka- State Of Impurity -2022- 10... -

The longest track. A slow, corrosive build. Rain sounds become static. Choral “amens” become screams. Around 4:00, everything cuts except a heartbeat and a match strike. Then: a full orchestral collapse. Ninth impurity: ritual without redemption.

A spoken-word interlude over a single, looping cello note. The protagonist confesses to a therapist who isn’t there. The final line: “Diagnóstico: estado impuro. Pronóstico: ninguna pureza vendrá a salvarme.” Seventh impurity: healing as acceptance of brokenness. Estado impuro -aka- State of Impurity -2022- 10...

The centerpiece. A six-minute ambient descent. Field recordings from an abandoned church in rural Spain. No drums. Only organ decay, a distant cough, and the singer humming a tune that doesn’t exist. Halfway through, a radio interference crackle—then nothing. Third impurity: silence as presence. The longest track

Industrial metal meets flamenco palmas. Lyrics about alchemy failed: trying to turn trauma into gold, only to end up with rot that shines. The guitar solo is a single, distorted note held for 30 seconds. Eighth impurity: value as decay. Choral “amens” become screams

A mechanical dembow beat. The lyrics describe a factory where workers bleed coolant instead of blood. The chorus is a single repeated line: “Mi corazón es un chip defectuoso / late en off-beat.” Second impurity: the cyborg as not futuristic, but already broken.

Arca’s Kick cycle, Lingua Ignota’s pastoral violence, Oneohtrix Point Never’s corrupted nostalgia, and anyone who has ever felt too messy for a happy ending.

The closer is not a resolution but a loop. It reuses the music box melody from track 1, but now warped, slower, dissolving. The final lyric: “Sigo impuro / sigo entero.” Then the track cuts mid-note. Silence. No fade-out. Tenth impurity: the refusal to end cleanly. Critical Notes Estado Impuro is an exhausting listen—deliberately. It rejects the catharsis of “finding yourself.” Instead, it argues that the self is a temporary, contradictory, and beautifully impure state. Best experienced not in a playlist shuffle, but alone, in the dark, with headphones that leak a little bit of the outside world in.