Divide And Dissolve Post New Single We Are Really Worried About You
Tuesday, 06 October 2020
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Billy Eyres
Divide and Dissolve have shared a new song.
We Are Really Worried About You is from the Melbourne experimental doom twosome's forthcoming LP, 'Gas Lit', which was produced by Ruban Neilson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra. It's due out in late January via Invada Records, with whom they've recently signed, though an official release date is still to be confirmed.
The track finds Takaiya Reed and Sylvie Nehill commanding a powerful message anchored around blackened drone riffs, neo-classical textures and crashing percussion. They said:
"We Are Really Worried About You is a call to transformation and freedom. This song and video seek to undermine and destroy the white supremacist colonial framework. We are weaving together our fight for Indigenous Sovereignty, Black and Indigenous Liberation, Water, Earth, and Indigenous land given back. Decolonise now."
Discussing its accompanying video, director Sepand Mashiahof added: "The world is structured to mold us down into stunted vessels that have to gaslight ourselves of our own truths/experiences just to survive. This video felt like an expression of that process: the desperation to be heard and the stonewall silence that pushes you into the void of perpetual self-doubt and self-sabotage.
"The concept and the collaboration aspects seemed to also mirror what it takes to move through this grief, that you need friends and community to be able to address these things together and help each other heal through it."
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