Mississippi’s loudest export have returned announce New EP ‘No Separation’ due out 05/23 via Convulse Records.

In 2023 the group emerged fully formed from the Hattiesburg underground with the release of their debut album, ‘Post-American’ and now they’re announcing its follow-up: the ‘No Separation’ EP, due out May 23rd from Convulse Records. It further refines the highly unique sound that’s made MSPAINT one of the most exciting new bands, not just in aggressive music but well beyond. The staunchly guitar-less group manages to be crushingly heavy and strikingly melodic all at once, colliding distorted bass lines with ever-shifting synths and propulsive drumming–all with mononymous vocalist Deedee‘s signature roar leading the way. All of this is perfectly captures by ‘No Separation’‘s lead single ‘Angel’, a stunning cut of otherworldly music that organically combines the cinematic scope of a John Carpenter score and visceral sweat-soaked urgency of a punk show.

‘No Separation’ tracklist:
1. Drift
2. Wildfire
3. Surveillance
4. No Separation
5. Angel

“Most of our music is genuinely inspired by our relationships to each other” Panella explains. “We bring together disparate musical philosophies and try to marry them and create our own community that can accept those differences and actually thrive as a result of them. Originality ultimately isn’t about creating something new as much as it’s about navigating your own inner world and the inner world’s of those directly around you until you’ve learned something that hasn’t been learned before.” The release of ‘Post-American’ was promptly followed by a whirlwind of heavy touring with the likes of Soul Glo, Beach Fossils, Twitching Tongues, Spirit Of The Beehive and more, and now ‘No Separation’ finds MSPAINT as even more of a well-oiled creative machine. Recorded and co-produced by Show Me The Body’s Julian Cashwann Pratt and Harlan Steel along with MSPAINT‘s own Nick Panella, the EP delves further into the disparate elements that make the band so singular, providing some of their most thunderous moments and also downright beautiful writing to date.

photo credit: Thorne Hood