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DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE
announce
Australian Tour Dates
INSATIABLE LP OUT NOW VIA BELLA UNION
+ New single & video
‘WITHHOLDING’
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Photo credit: Whit Forrester
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“Takiaya Reed’s ceiling-shaking soundscapes, imbued with anti-colonialist fury, have taken this dynamic musical project from the underground to widespread critical acclaim” – The Guardian
“as potent and unshakable as the power structures it seeks to dismantle” – Pitchfork
“..earth-splintering tracks fusing heavy doom and drone metal” – NME
“Best experienced live and with a desire to be chewed, spat out and restored…Divide & Dissolve is not to be taken lightly.” – VICE
“A monumental beast of an album sounding at times like some great lost collaboration between Black Sabbath, Ligeti and late-career Scott Walker.” – UNCUT
“..music that weighs, and ultimately defies, society’s stacked odds.” – Bandcamp Daily
“Crucial to the current paradigm of heavy music” – FADER
“A band that demands to be seen live.” – Beat Magazine
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Divide and Dissolve, helmed by Black and Cherokee composer and multi-instrumentalist Takiaya Reed, has released new album Insatiable via Bella Union, alongside a video for single ‘Withholding’. Today D//D announce headline shows in Melbourne and Brisbane, alongside performances at VIVID Live in Sydney and Dark Mofo in Tasmania this June.
The 10-track album has earned acclaim spanning Decibel Magazine, FLOOD Magazine, NPR, Brooklyn Vegan, FBi Radio and much more. Takiaya lent vocals to the first ever D//D song on recent single ‘Grief‘, which showed her softer, contemplative side. Today’s new single ‘Withholding’ puts the project’s rib-rattling doom metal depths on full display. Takiaya shares, “‘Withholding’ is about a place where change can be perceived. Where it is felt materially, spiritually, emotionally and physically. It is about navigating the dynamics and tensions of push and pull.”
Divide and Dissolve music is an acknowledgement of the dispossession that occurs due to colonial violence, it honours ancestors, opposes white supremacy and calls for indigenous sovereignty. Already legends on the international doom metal scene, the new album is an evolution of sound and intricacy. Strapped with thunderstorms of crashing cymbals, crunchy feedback, stomach-churning riffs and neo-classical inflections, the new collection delves into the idea of freedom through impermanence and destruction vs compassion, an urgent call to imagine a better world before it’s too late.
The album title Insatiable came to Takiaya in a dream. She had a vision of a better world, one that gelled seamlessly with the optimism of her take on heavy music: “I saw and have felt the impact of people committing great acts of harm, causing pain in a never ending cycle. I have also seen and felt the strength and power of people committing great acts of love,” she says. For Takiaya, this is what it means to be “insatiable”; it’s the way we choose either a path of destruction or one of compassion, and experience it to its fullest. “It’s an album about love, and it feels important to experience this, now more than ever.”
The new album follows 2023’s Systemic, produced by Ruban Nielson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra and their widely acclaimed third album Gas Lit in 2021, which was hailed Mary Anne Hobbs’ Album of the Year. Divide and Dissolve have supported Chelsea Wolfe, Low, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and Deafheaven and performed headline dates and festivals around the world, including Supersonic, End of the Road, VIVID, Mona Foma, and Unsound.
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DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE
AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Wednesday 11 June – Metro Social | VIVID Festival, Sydney
Friday 12 June – Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane
Saturday 13 June – The Tote, Melbourne
Sunday 14 June – Dark Mofo Festival, Hobart
Tickets via divideanddissolve.com
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INSATIABLE out now via Bella Union
Track Listing:
1. HEGEMONIC
2. MONOLITHIC
3. WITHHOLDING
4. LONELINESS
5. DICHOTOMY
6. PROVENANCE
7. DISINTEGRATE
8. GRIEF
9. HOLDING PATTERN
10. DEATH CULT
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