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On her third album, Holes Of Sinian, Shanghai artist and SVBKVLT stalwart 33EMYBW seeks to understand evolution from a non-human perspective. Looking to extinct species, 33 focused on lifeforms able to live and die without entering into cycles of hunting and gathering, or violence and consumption, taking particular inspiration from the biota of the Ediacaran Period, roughly 635-541 million years ago. Ediacaran biota exist by means of absorption, utilising microbial mats to absorb nutrients from their surroundings. In a gesture of speculative world building, 33 maps these biota into the present day, excavating through sound a habitat for these creatures to thrive in, allowing them to linger outside of time. These are the holes of the album’s title, holes in space and time through which 33’s biota can wriggle, creatures caught outside of time that drew artist Joey Holder to the project. “A lot of our interests converge around the importance of de-centering humans, and focusing more on non-human creatures
