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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 keeping a keen eye as to avoid repetition. following visuals for “Say Less” and With a radical cast of talented contributors “Bernie Sanders.” such as harpist Mary Lattimore, classical The album also arrives just prior to songwriter/producer Alex G., The Great the band’s ten year anniversary and follows Dismal showcases yet another essential their live-streamed record release show last side of the band’s trademark American night, The Great Dismal: An Auditory And Post-Shoegaze sound. Ocular Trauma Featuring Nothing and Full Of Hell, which was purposefully NOTHING formulated as a way to support live music The Great Dismal workers worldwide with a proper paid gig Relapse Records while venues and their staff are out of work keeps true to their chaotic outlook on life, musician Shelley Weiss, and singer/ due to the pandemic. 1. A Fabricated Life 2. Say Less Closing in on the band’s ten-year 3. April Ha Ha mark, NOTHING frontman Domenic 4. Catch a Fade Palermo finds himself stringing together 5. Famine Asylum songs of misanthropic tales of Philadelphia 6. Bernie Sanders with a refined and refreshed take on the 7. In Blueberry Memories band’s classic sound. 8. Blue Mecca The ever progressive NOTHING 10. Ask The Rust 9. Just a Story Novmber 2020 • Rock and Blues International 35