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

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Gwynplaine de Pétroleuse From a slow and dreary (in a good way) start to a loud scream filled harsh noisy hellscape crescendo I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer is a Noise Metal masterpiece. Each song perfectly pairs with each other and the demonic and sheer hellish sounds and emotions that come from The Body here are unreplicatable. Favorite track: Blessed, Alone.

Luke M A perfect balance of the beautiful and terrifying all together in one album. Strong AOTY contender Favorite track: Nothing Stirs.

Alice M. The boundaries of my definition of “music” have been pushed further still, and there's no telling where this will stop. Life is fun.

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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

about

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

shows

Jul 22

Broadcast

Glasgow, UK
Jul 23

Soup Kitchen

Manchester, UK
Jul 24

Rough Trade

Bristol, UK
Jul 25

Fluff Fest

Pilsen, Czech Republic
Jul 27

Opera Concert Club

St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Jul 29

Macao

Milan, Italy
Jul 30

Freakout Club

Bologna, Italy
Jul 31

Kapu

Linz, Austria
Aug 01

Tabačka KulturFabrik

Kosice, Slovakia
Aug 02

OFF Festival

Katowice, Poland
Sep 06

Bluebird Theater

Denver, CO
Sep 13

Columbus Theatre

Providence, RI

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