Factory Album ((better)) - Chocolate

The next morning, her refrigerator was filled with seventy-two identical chocolate bars. She didn't remember making them. But when she bit into one, she heard the celeste again. And somewhere in the distance, a broken paddle kept stirring.

The final track, "Rivers of Rondonia," was seven minutes of a single, out-of-tune celeste playing over the sound of a river of molten chocolate being stirred by a broken paddle. It was said that if you played it backward, you’d hear the ghost of a chocolatier whispering the recipe for the world’s most perfect, most addictive, most dangerous bonbon—one that would make you forget every sad thing, but also forget how to stop eating. chocolate factory album

And Elara, licking her fingers, pressed repeat. The next morning, her refrigerator was filled with

The album was called by a one-hit-wonder band from the 70s named The Fudge . They’d recorded it inside an abandoned Nestlé plant in Switzerland, using only the sounds of machinery: the clack of molds, the hiss of tempered steam, and the thump-thump-thump of a refinery stone grinding sugar into silk. And somewhere in the distance, a broken paddle kept stirring

The Chocolate Factory Album was no longer an album. It had finally become what it always wanted to be: a factory that needed a worker.

Not in a demonic way. In a sticky way.