Torpor Announce New Album Abscission Due Sept. 15
It would seem I missed Torpor‘s 2019 album, Rhetoric of the Image — hey, can’t catch ’em all; I do my best — but I dug their 2015 debut, From Nothing Comes Everything (review here), and with the excuse to dig into the sophomore outing I’m finding myself without regrets, the hard-slogging post-metallic crunch as atmospherically dense as one would hope but still able to move when it wants and engage some dynamic in terms of atmospherics and noise and so on while remaining utterly ferocious on the whole. I don’t mind a bit of homework to do, especially when it involves a riff like that in the middle of “Enigmatic Demand” from the last LP. That’ll do quite nicely, thanks.
No audio from the new one yet, but if you’re like me and checking out the preceding offering, you’ll be glad already they went back to Wayne Adams to record. The PR wire confirms a Sept. 15 release for Abscission and brings more details. I believe them when they put ‘absolutely crushing heaviness’ in all-caps.
Go to town:
CRUSHING UK SLUDGE VISIONARIES TORPOR ANNOUNCE THEIR 3RD LP ABSCISSION
Bristol based sludge trio TORPOR announce their obliterating 3rd album ABSCISSION. Over the past ten years this colossal trio have been crushing stages across the UK and mainland Europe, leaving behind an impressive discography along the way. Abscission weaves A fine tapestry of sludge metal, lumbering doom riffs, forward thinking post-rock dynamics, cerebral drone passages, ambient textures and stark spoken poetry – distilling all their greatest strengths and influences into their tightest and leanest set of songs to date. Recorded by producer Wayne Adams (Petbrick, Big Lad) out in the Welsh windswept wilderness of Giant Wafer Studios, Abscission promises to be a paean to earth shattering tones, subtle detailed textures, immersive sound design and most importantly… ABSOLUTELY CRUSHING HEAVINESS.
Abscission will be released on September 15th 2023 on environmentally conscious Eco-Mix Vinyl and Digital formats through emerging London based label Human Worth. 10% of all proceeds will be donated to registered charity Second Step – a leading mental health charity in Bristol and the South West. Torpor have performed live with the likes of Pigs x7, Primitive Man, The Body, Amenra, Bossk, Conan, Wallowing, Bismuth, Plebian Grandstand and have performed at festivals including Raw Power, Dreadfest, Entombed, Incubate, Doomlines and were selected to appear at Roadburn.
PRE-ORDERS WILL LAUNCH ON AUGUST 4TH THROUGH HUMAN WORTH: https://humanworth.bandcamp.com/
ABSCISSION
1. Interior Gestures [10:46]
2. As Shadow Follows Body [9:20]
3. Accidie [6:16]
4. Carbon [3:32]
5. Island Of Abandonment [10:59]
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Don’t ruffle yer feathers, no harsh, no judgment, but one of those tastefully obscured dudes isn’t a dude…I think…I mean, it doesn’t matter, I get it, fuck the patriarchy, why don’t they say “male-fronted”?, I’m just as aware and also completely uncaring as to what an artist/musicians’ genitals are/should be, just makeadariffs and we’ll come, but the photo credit for Lauren Mason leads me to believe she’s also the bassist/some vocals as per their discogs page entry FAR less obscured photo and info:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/3219708-Torpor-2
Hope you don’t mind my pointing this out, but I thought someone should.
Excellent news! And they kept quiet about that last time we were talking band stuff.
Lauren is indeed responsible for the enormous bass noise, and some vocals. Not sure she’d be bothered by being included in a generic ‘dudes’.