Divide and Dissolve-Gas Lit-CD-FLAC-2021-GRAVEWISH

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  Artist...: Divide and Dissolve                                   
 Album....: Gas Lit                                               
 Year.....: 2021                                                  
 Rel.Date: 2021-03-12                                            
 Genre....: Metal                                                 
 Label....: Invada Records                                        
 Source...: CD                                                    
 Encoder..: FLAC 1.3.1                                            
 Quality..: 44.1kHz, 2 channels                                   
       1.  Oblique                                                5:13
       2.  Prove It                                               4:25
       3.  Did You Have Something to Do With It (ft. Minori       2:29
           Sanchiz-Fung)
       4.  Denial                                                 7:37
       5.  Far From Ideal                                         2:11
       6.  It's Really Complicated                                4:34
       7.  Mental Gymnastics                                      2:33
       8.  We Are Really Worried About You                        5:05
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        Cat nr: INV251CD                                                   
        Listening to the opening minutes of Divide and Dissolve's third    
        full-length album 'Gas Lit' is like entering a concert hall where  
        the orchestra has gone home, but the spectral sounds of their      
        instruments being tuned still lingers around an empty chamber.     
        Strange noises feel like they could have existed for centuries,    
        waiting for a pair of ears to stumble upon them.                   
        Melbourne-based two-piece Divide and Dissolve - comprising of      
        Takiaya Reed (saxophone, guitar, live effects) and Sylvie Nehill   
        (drums, live effects) - have composed a remarkable listen across   
        eight hair-raising, earth-splintering tracks of heavy doom, drone  
        metal and desolate jazz, produced with Unknown Mortal Orchestra's  
        Ruban Nielson. Whilst honouring their respective Cherokee and      
        Maori ancestries, 'Gas Lit' pines for a social utopia where white  
        supremacy and colonisation in all of its guises has been fully     
        dismantled.                                                        
        The duo's road to utopia isn't untroubled, mind. From the          
        devastating opening saxophone shrieks flecked across the           
        cinematic drones of 'Oblique' like paint, to the same refrain      
        sparsely patterned across 'Denial', Divide and Dissolve at their   
        most pared back are brutally visceral. There's an unnerving magic  
        and beauty that plays throughout their harsh noise, like a dense   
        mist lifting off a still river. On 'Amorphous', pummelling drones  
        curl into a cathedral of sound, and by the album's ending, these   
        same sounds are stretched out to incongruity, clawing to be let    
        back in.                                                           
        The only voice on the record enters abruptly in 'Did You Have      
        Something to Do with It': The legacy of greed has grown from its  
        seed to infiltrate every place, every face. It's a startling      
        awake from the aural trance the duo conducts with their sludge     
        sermon. White supremacy grew, the voice says, first by attacking  
        the body, and then by distorting the mind, and Divide and         
        Dissolve are taking a similar sonic strategy to undo it.           
        Unrelenting heavy vibrations wash with the strength to pull you    
        under and taste the silt. Complacency is not an option.            
        The album's heavier moments steamroll, too: 'Prove It' funnels     
        into a slow and enveloping mass, whilst the shortest track on the  
        record, 'Far From Ideal', feels endless with infectious terror     
        and viscous riffs. That instrumental music can carry their social  
        plight so unmistakably is astonishing. Through glowing stasis and  
        solemn ceremony, Divide and Dissolve's sonics of despair and       
        destruction have been crafted into a remarkably life-affirming     
        experience, and it's never been more needed.                       
        //                                                                 
        Note: Printed 2020 release on CD but the release date must have    
        been pushed back because it was not available to pre-order from    
        Invada until Jan 29th 2021.                                        

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