I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer.

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Alasdair Duncan Already had the digital edition but I wanted a special vinyl of one of my favourite albums of the year so far. Favorite track: Nothing Stirs.

TimmyT This put my head in a blender. Absolute lunacy. Glad I got the vinyl.

Winslow Dumaine The Body is already a phenomenal act, but the addition of Kristin Hayter takes this album to astounding heights. I'll be listening to this album for years. Favorite track: Sickly Heart Of Sand.

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	1.	The Last Form Of Loving 03:34
	2.	Can Carry No Weight 04:30
	3.	Partly Alive 04:22
	4.	The West Has Failed 03:38
	5.	Nothing Stirs 05:55
	6.	Off Script 05:28
	7.	An Urn 04:03
	8.	Blessed, Alone 03:58
	9.	Sickly Heart Of Sand 05:35
	10.	Ten Times A Day, Every Day, A Stranger 08:32

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With each release, the duo of Lee Buford and Chip King continue to defy the constraints of what it means to be a “heavy” band, seamlessly combining composition or production approaches from hip hop, pop, classical, as well as rock and electronica resulting in a rich and utterly singular sound. Equally at home on festival stages, art spaces, or in DIY basements, they transcend musical boundaries. Their ambitious creativity shapes their bleak worldview into propulsive, affecting, and even danceable music often drenched in distortion. On I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer The Body challenged themselves again by turning their compositional approach on its head, choosing to build the record on their own samples rather than recording the basic tracks of drums and guitars and processing those. The results carry the listener towards the brink of emotional and musical extremes. I Have Fought Against It… conjures the sublime from an unexpected and incomparable variety of sounds.

The Body are known for their intense, abrasive live shows, whose waves of dissonance create an abiding dread or an overwhelming sense of terror. They create a volume of sound almost unfathomable from a duo and are unaffected by instrument choice: guitar and drums, or keyboard and synthesizers. Inventive producers, the duo expand their recorded sound palate with regular contributions from the likes of Chrissy Wolpert (Assembly of Light Choir), and Ben Eberle (Sandworm), arranged with help of longtime engineers Seth Manchester and Keith Souza (Machines With Magnets). Wolpert’s ethereal calls and Eberle’s vicious growl are augmented by Lingua Ignota’s Kristin Hayter, whose impassioned voice features on the viscerally emotional “Nothing Stirs.” On “Sickly Heart Of Sand,” vocal tradeoffs between King and Hayter’s are punctuated with the howls of Uniform’s Michael Berdan. With The Body’s keen sense of balance, the ferociousness of these extreme performances are underpinned by the elegance of string swells and pensive, even melodies from a lone piano.

For The Body, any source of inspiration is fair game to achieve their distinct atmosphere of unbearable dread, pain, and sadness. “Partly Alive” places rolling drum figures, commonly found in pop, and transforms them with a backdrop of horns, skittering synthetic hi hats, and pitched feedback. The oppressive groove of “An Urn” pulls beat arrangement and melodic ideas from disparate electronic influences. Their eclectic sampling choices are both musical and literary from singjay star Eek-A-Mouse to a reading of Bohumil Hrabal to the Clarice Lispector quote on the album’s artwork and beyond. The album title, an excerpt of Virginia Woolf’s suicide letter, is an apt moniker for the pervasive themes of loss, desperation and loneliness throughout. Carefully selected samples and literary references bolster the album’s emotional heft. I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer proves how truly adventurous and diverse a creative force The Body has become. The Body continue to push the boundaries and definition of what is heavy music, their ingenuity unparalleled.

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released May 11, 2018

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the body Portland, Oregon

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Jun 27

Turf Club

St. Paul, MN
Jul 03

The Garrison

Toronto, ON
Jul 23

Club Dada

Dallas, TX
Jul 28

The Rebel Lounge

Phoenix, AZ
Jul 29

Soda Bar

San Diego, CA

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