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Intensive Care and The Body announce collaborative album 'Was I Good Enough?' and share first single

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Zachary Harrell Jones

Intensive Care and The Body have teamed up for the collaborative effort, Was I Good Enough?, releasing March 14th via Closed Casket Activities. The bands shared the first single, "At Death's Door". along with the official music video.

Pre-order Was I Good Enough? here.

Ryan Bloomer (Intensive Care) offered the following:

Our motivations are very similar. The collaboration made sense, because we weren't necessarily bringing anything separate individually. It seemed like we were bringing two sides together in order to make a bigger whole. At the same time, we didn't repeat ourselves. You're going to hear two guitar-based bands who didn't use much guitar at all on this. It's a largely electronic album, but it sounds as heavy as any guitar-based music I've ever done.

It was all based on our friendship and appreciation for their 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.

We took what The Body gave us and ran with it. 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. Everybody involved in this project wanted to push boundaries.

Chip's voice is unmistakable. 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.

 

 


Pre-order Was I Good Enough? here.

Was I Good Enough? tracklist:

  1. Mistakes Have Been Made
  2. Swallowed By The God
  3. The Misunderstanding
  4. The Riderless Mount
  5. Cartography of Suffering
  6. Unwanted
  7. Mandelbrot Anamnesis



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