Body Meat Announces Debut Album Starchris, Shares Video For New Song: Watch

Body Meat, the solo project of Philadelphia producer Chris Taylor, has announced his debut album. Starchris arrives August 23 via Fan. Taylor shared the lead single from his new album, “Grand staircase,” which combines trap, nu-metal, and dance to tell the story of a level one developer's boss battle. The new song is also accompanied by a music video, which you can watch below.

“'High Beams' is about a developer anxiously creating a game from inside a cave,” Taylor explained. “He codes all the functionality, rules and physics, every parameter to his liking. He then tries to present himself to this world as a clone. But an oversight in his sloppy code work creates a bug in it. His instant copy cannot be removed and starts chasing him. The programmer, horrified, tries to destroy his copy of himself. Nothing he does can stop the copy from moving towards him. He begins to realize that he has done this before. The copy remembers him and knows that he must warn the developer. The programmer is cursed to write this code again and again. Only the faulty copy can break the cycle.”

Partly influenced by the world building and storytelling of RPGs, Starchris follows a hero's journey through boss battles, cutscenes and self-realization. Although it's Body Meat's first full-length album, Taylor has released several EPs, records and singles since debuting in 2016, including 2021 Year of the Orc and of 2019 Truck music. Body Meat signed with Partisan in 2021.

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Starchris:

01 A tone in the dark
02 The Mad Hatter
03 Grand staircase
04 Electrische
05 Focus
06 Here
07 Crystallization
08 North Side
09 Starchris
10 I'm in pieces
11 Demons
12 Ōbu No Seirei (Spirit of a Sphere)
13 Paradise