LP - Limited edition of 300 140g LP’s with hand screen-printed covers - printed by Grilka Press.
CD- Limited run of 100 Compact Discs in a Digipack case.
“Choking On A Crunch Wrap Supreme As The World Burns” brings us Trigger Object at the peak of mastery, channeling and fermenting our collective and individual disgust for the state of the world into a noise seance. The project makes gifts of Trigger Object’s observations in the face of general obliviousness to crisis—a careful record of all that we block out. Her field recordings bring in children playing on a playground in an active, taped-off crime scene; a murder of motorcycles revving on a city street; an afternoon at Best Buy when every alarm in the store went off at once but business continued as usual; a machine slamming a hole into her basement to release poisonous radium decay. Synthesizers add hyperreal texture: duck tape ripped off a mouth.
As always with Trigger Object’s music, you can’t miss the humor. The title track interweaves the snap crackle pop of a snack kingdom with the sentient screeches of machines. The dance track “Cloud of Daggers” brings us into a swarm of insects berserking themselves. Alongside these absurdities is both beauty and ache. In “Untoward Nauseating Unmotion of the Floor,” a celestial choir accompanies a radiant, nervy, ominous procession. “Depression Mold” narrates a slow escape in the dark past the carousing of murderous spirits.
In a world that’s clogging our throats, nothing rotten can be expelled and nothing fresh can be inhaled. Yet for all its despair, the album resonates with the psychedelics of survival and commiseration. Here is her prayer for a collective Heimlich maneuver, an insistence that we might clear the air passage if we squeeze each other hard enough.
-Lola Milholland
releases March 3, 2026
Trigger Object is Veronica ‘Vern’ Avola
Written, produced, recorded and mixed by Veronica Avola at Frog Hollow between January and August of 2025*
*Track 6 features my dear friend Faith Coloccia - who enhanced the song with additional vocals and field recordings.
Mastered by Collin Gorman Weiland
Album artwork by Corey Lunn