Announce collaborative album ‘Was I Good Enough?’ out March 14th on Closed Casket Activities.

Toronto duo Intensive Care (Andrew Nolan, Ryan Bloomer) and Rhode Island duo The Body (Chip King, Lee Buford) are innovative forces in extreme music. Now, these four musicians have joined forces for the brilliant collaborative album ‘Was I Good Enough?‘, incoming March 14 on Closed Casket Activities. With glitchy, bellowing vocals and an icy industrial backbone, these eight tracks showcase the respective pedigrees of their creators while summoning a dynamic and dangerous beast through the distortion. Artwork by: Jon Kortland (Iron Lung / Pig Heart Transplant). The union of Intensive Care and The Body dates back to a tour in 2018 but the idea for a collaboration remained on the backburner until 2021. The Body established the framework for the album and shared it with Intensive Care, and all four musicians tinkered with it for the next year-and-a-half. Lee from The Body comments: “What started as years and years of admiration both musically and personally has led to us convincing IC into making our love into a concrete physical release.” Bloomer says the collaboration was “based on our friendship and appreciation for The Body‘s approach—which is quite similar to ours. In a conventional sense, we’re both grounded in heavy music. We all try to transcend the boundaries of the genre and redefine what heavy means to us.” They did so by adopting a production technique widely used in hip-hop and originally popularized in Houston: chopped and screwed. They combined samples, instrumentals, drum loops, vocals, and other elements into a corrosive and caustic collage. “We took what The Body gave us and ran with it” Bloomer recalls. “We were deliberately slowing parts down and doubling up to emphasize certain vocal lines. Hip-hop was a huge inspiration. We tried to lean on those techniques in order to create this record and put our own spin on it.” He concludes: “There’s a real contrast between our voices. You really hear the back-and-forth of two bands who have come together to make a record.”

‘Was I Good Enough?’, tracklisting:

Mistakes Have Been Made
Swallowed By The God
The Misunderstanding
At Death’s Door
The Riderless Mount
Cartography Of Suffering
Unwanted
Mandelbrot Anamnesis

Photo by: Jake Ballah