Helmed by Black and Cherokee composer and multi-instrumentalist Takiaya Reed, Divide and Dissolve are gearing up for the release their new album. Titled Insatiable, the full-length is out on April 18 via the Bella Union record label. The band have just shared the record’s new single, “Grief,” with a music video, directed by Sepi Mashiahof. Watch it below and read more.
Pre-order Insatiable here: https://bfan.link/d-d-insatiable
Like all of Divide and Dissolve’s music, Insatiable is almost entirely instrumental. While the album’s sheer grandiosity represents an evolution in Divide and Dissolve’s sound, it also marks the very first time that Takiaya has ever lent vocals to a D//D song. On “Grief” her distorted voice echoes atop a vibrating bass tone, repeating the lyrics: “I don’t know what I’m supposed to do/ I’m so lonely without you.” Takiaya explains, “The voice is such a mysterious instrument. This album feels different, and I wanted to honour that.”
The director of the music video, Sepi Mashiahof, adds;
“The music video for “Grief” is an ode to the feelings of empowerment, resistance, and sadness that Divide and Dissolve weaves into our bodies. It’s an expressionist diary made up of dissonant and revelatory memories. Grief eclipses everything around us, innocuously lingering in the functional movements of our daily lives, then aggressively literal in the reflective silence behind our eyes. Grief is inherent to our existence, knowing that a better world exists for all of us and its potential is boundless, yet we’re made to suffer the atrocities of greed and exploitation instead. We can honor Grief as a passage of life, but we must resist the forces that impose it as a numbness to injustice.”
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.”
Divide and Dissolve’s 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. Listen to it, digest it, and become insatiable.
Insatiable tracklisting:
01 – Hegemonic
02 – Monolithic
03 – Withholding
04 – Loneliness
05 – Dichotomy
06 – Provenance
07 – Disintegrate
08 – Grief
09 – Holding Pattern
10 – Death Cult
Revisit the video for “Provenance” here: https://youtu.be/35RyOQhTqzI
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