Collapse Culture’s newest album "Drag Your Coffin My Lord," the sophomore release of the Asheville/Oakland duo comprised of Graham Scala and Ian Miller, acts in much the same way as the group’s debut - as a means of processing the dire qualities of the current zeitgeist that become more intense and overwhelming by the day. But while "Drag Your Coffin…" possesses similar genre agnostic qualities to their previous work, the approach is taken to greater extremes through a synthesis of diverse components into a varied and ever-shifting panorama, with their heretofore established mix of grainy cinematic dub textures and maximalist post-punk techno propulsiveness augmented with cosmic disco jeremiads, Atom Age educational filmstrip synthwave, and hauntological Morlock psychedelia.
Both the group’s members have decades’ worth of background in heavier music with bands like Kowloon Walled City, US Christmas, Bleach Everything, Less Art, Strangelight, Souvenir’s Young America, and Forensics, and the sense of rawness and immediacy present in those bands shines through in Collapse Culture despite it diverging starkly from their better-known projects. Though the duo’s intention was to make a dance record, the end result is something weightier and more confrontational, a bracing and engaging sequence of battle hymns for spiritual warfare.
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released September 16, 2022
All music created by Ian Miller and Graham Scala in their respective homes in Oakland, CA and Asheville, NC. Mixing, mastering, and art by Graham Scala. Apologies to Leonard Cohen.
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