What sound does the body make when it encounters the cold? Kassidy Human Waste’s new album, That Cold Body, maps this liminal territory.
We are talking about Alessandro Meazzini, under the alias Subzero, whom we first encountered with his spectacular release on Subsist Records. Born in Brazil in 1997 and adopted that same year by Italian parents, he moved to Italy. His approach to electronic music began at the age of 13, experimenting and improvising with disc jocking and arrangements using objects found in his home.
A few days ago, we presented two full previews: ‘Run Away’ and ‘The Rain Increased Control (Rework)’, where we glimpsed fragments of flight and claustrophobia. The complete album, however, reveals a closed narrative cycle: the escape, the containment, and the re-signification of human waste. This new album is more than a collection of tracks; it is a conceptual suite that uses coldwave, electro-industrial, and noise to dissect the corporeal experience in the digital age.
The atmospheric opening describes desolate environments, full of a «future without a future,» amidst agonizing nostalgia and harmonic claims of escalating intensity. The key elements are: coldness, control, self-observation, retrospect, time, and pursuit. The sounds are industrial, experimental, ambient, and techno. An impressive electronic sound orchestra. A compelling assertion of principles.
‘Run Away’ explodes not as an escape track, but as the physical symptom of the need to flee, with its pulsing bass imitating a racing heart. It is the starting point of the crisis. The initial feelings of heaviness intensify. Nostalgia seems to vanish, and the future feels dystopian. The sound remains exceptionally well-crafted and unique, just as this artist has accustomed us to.
That premature—or perhaps never fully realized—climax becomes apparent in ‘Sunlight Again’, which, by its name, promises the sun’s return. It is a reboot, conceptually, emotionally, and sonically. The tense atmosphere relaxes, finding new avenues, no longer of escape, but of entry: of living anew. The cold body warms and softens again. The sound flows like fine, velvety strings that promise everything will be alright.
‘The Other Side of You’ is a retrospective and observation of the process involved in the previous track. If ‘Sunlight Again’ is the process, this track is the meditation upon it, which is why it feels more paused, reflective, and contemplative in its sounds. For any process to be observed, it must be observed, mustn’t it?
‘Endure’ takes up the process, transitioning toward what follows, like an orchestra announcing the next act. The crisis and the climax are reintroduced, but now through synthesis: from the overwhelming beginning to its counter-face, the calm that heals. It is the direct expression of the main impulse, which has integrated both sides, darkness and light.
The oppression continues to build. In ‘The Rain’ and ‘Dies Irae’, the fine texture allows for great freshness and emotional coldness. The rhythm is taciturn yet versatile, traveling in different directions, always mediated by the same intensity. The energy is constant and functions as the album’s rotor: how to modulate such palpable intensity. Here, the synthesizer’s heartbeat becomes both an emotional and sonic monitor and thermometer. The conflict shifts into immersion, and the entire sonic experience takes on a physical body.
‘Anxiety, Panic And Depression’ is the sonorization of these individual psychological afflictions, which receive a very comprehensive, almost tender, sonic treatment. The sound caresses the soul, perhaps acting as an antidote or as a critical observation of these conditions. Anxiety, panic, and depression: things to counteract, or parts of life that must be navigated? Here, more than in other tracks, but in each in its own way, the honesty and endearing art of Kassidy Human Waste are evident.
‘Maybe One Day’ is the closure. The sensations are of resolution but simultaneous fading, with flashes of open unease. The concept is sealed—one that is never easy, but if all art is to be good, it must be so, or at least that is my impression.
What we presented in our Premiere as a simple rework is revealed here as the thematic cornerstone. The coldness is no longer external («the rain») but internalized («control»). The obsessive repetition is not a punishment, but rather a new organic rhythm of the post-digital body. It is the epilogue or logical conclusion. The final state after the journey: the acceptance or transformation of the initial conflict.
In this album, Kassidy Human Waste explores the idea of «human waste» not as something discarded, but as a new, raw material for creation, linking it to the industrial aesthetic. It examines the paradox of coldwave («cold» genre) used to express visceral anguish and industrial («hot» genre), mediated by an interface or synthesizer (techno) that fuses both.
The production and sound are crystalline and abrasive, yet saturated with impressive subtlety. It is a precise and perfect clinical sonic observation. The cover art, with its black background, a superimposed embrace, and scattered rose petals, clearly conveys the entire concept and the emotions involved.
Like a cliché striving for pure honesty, this album is not merely listened to; it is inhabited, felt, suffered, accompanied, and empathized with. And upon exiting it, one perceives for an instant the echo of the machine’s rhythm in one’s own pulse.
Artist: Kassidy Human Waste That Cold Body
Title: That Cold Body
Label: Self-release
Release Date: December 4th, 2025
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Tracklist
1. Old Orphan
2. Ruyn Away
3. Sunlight Again
4. The Other Side Of You
5. Endure
6. The Rain
7. Dies Irae
8. Anxiety, Panic And Depression
9. Maybe One Day
10. The Rain ( Increased Control Rework)
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