The Body will release their 2xLP No One Deserves Happiness on March 18th, 2016 via Thrill Jockey. Setting out to make “the grossest pop album of all time”, Chip King and Lee Buford have once again re-imagined their extreme, metal-leaning sonics, and in so doing continue to push their sound in unique, genre-defying ways. “Shelter Is Illusory” is our first listen in on the new work and it combines The Body’s catastrophically heavy approach, industrial sounding drums, King’s uncanny howls, as well as vocals from artist and performer Maralie Armstrong. While the band normally performs live as a duo, in the studio they add the services of Seth Manchester and Keith Souza from Machines with Magnets–the group’s long-time studio; and the addition can be heard in the rigor with which they approach their complexly layered compositions. Great efforts are taken to preserve the details and dynamics of the group’s obliterating sound, and though that often involves heavily processed layers and copious amounts of remixing, the results are strangely organic. For instance, on “Shelter Is Illusory”, the track’s opening drum sequence simmers in distorted hiss and high pitched, bit-crushed whir, while later, it’s doom laden low end smokes in plumes of charcoal and obsidian.
