The Body and Dis Fig find kinship in reimagining what it means to make »heavy music.« Their debut Orchards of a Futile Heaven is the perfect synthesis of two forces, twisting melodicism and intoxicating rhythms, layering a dense miasma of distortion with intense beats and a soaring voice clawing its way towards absolution.

Prolific musical force The Body have over the course of two decades consistently challenged categorization, redefining what it means to be a heavy band. The duo of Chip King and Lee Buford emote pain like no other band, and harness an ability to move nimbly between the often strict confines of the metal world and the electronic music sphere. Dis Fig, aka Felicia Chen, pushes electronic music into dark extremes, from warped DJ sets and avant production, to being a member of Tianzhuo Chen’s performance art series »TRANCE.«

Orchards of a Futile Heaven’s walls of sputtering texture and tectonic booms are soaked in the reverence and melancholy of sacred spaces brought to life by palpable intensity by Chen’s voice. Crafted during a time of personal fragility, the album’s devastating force lies beyond any of the expected noise and abrasive textures typically associated with both The Body & Dis Fig. Suffused with a raw vulnerability and a longing for catharsis, Chen’s voice searches for escape in the midst of oppressive atmospheres as if determined to find relief from guilt.

The multidisciplinary artist and performer otay:onii infuses her productions with a shapeshifting voice, leaping from oddball pop melodies to shrieking caprice as she explores themes of anxiety and selfhood over swirling drones, distorted harmony, noise, and carnivalesque ceremonial forms. With the revenant might of a lunar spectre, her hull-breached vibes twist and scurry like the by-blows of a dead god’s dreams, corkscrewing down into the mind’s cringing eye to pick on one’s own psychosis. Her latest album 夢之駭客 Dream Hacker is out on WV Sorcerer—the perfect soundtrack to your next trip through the void.