Nothing Releases Fourth Full-Length Album The Great Dismal NOTHING releases their fourth fulllength The Great Dismal via Relapse Records. Recorded throughout quarantine with producer Will Yip at Pennsylvania’s Studio Four, The Great Dismal explores existentialist themes of isolation, extinction, and human behavior in the face of 2020’s vast wasteland. “The Great Dismal refers to a swamp, a brilliant natural trap where survival is custom fit to its inhabitants,” Domenic Palermo states. “The nature of its beautiful, but taxing environment and harsh conditions can’t ever really be shaken or forgotten too easily.” Coinciding with the album release, NOTHING are also sharing the latest visual installment from the project. Directed by Jordan Hemingway (Yves Tumor, Travis Scott, Gucci, YSL), “Famine Asylum” journeys through the psyche of a murderous man as he spirals into insanity.
The video is the third from the album following visuals for “Say Less” and “Bernie Sanders.” The album also arrives just prior to the band’s ten year anniversary and follows their live-streamed record release show last night, The Great Dismal: An Auditory And Ocular Trauma Featuring Nothing and Full Of Hell, which was purposefully formulated as a way to support live music workers worldwide with a proper paid gig while venues and their staff are out of work due to the pandemic. Closing in on the band’s ten-year mark, NOTHING frontman Domenic Palermo finds himself stringing together songs of misanthropic tales of Philadelphia with a refined and refreshed take on the band’s classic sound. The ever progressive NOTHING keeps true to their chaotic outlook on life,
keeping a keen eye as to avoid repetition. With a radical cast of talented contributors such as harpist Mary Lattimore, classical musician Shelley Weiss, and singer/ songwriter/producer Alex G., The Great Dismal showcases yet another essential side of the band’s trademark American Post-Shoegaze sound. NOTHING The Great Dismal Relapse Records 1. A Fabricated Life 2. Say Less 3. April Ha Ha 4. Catch a Fade 5. Famine Asylum 6. Bernie Sanders 7. In Blueberry Memories 8. Blue Mecca 9. Just a Story 10. Ask The Rust
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