The Body, known for being the ultimate team players of heavy music, have once again enlisted collaborators for their next record. Toronto's own Intensive Care and the Rhode Island experimentalists will release Was I Good Enough? on March 14 through Closed Casket Activities.
"Our motivations are very similar," Intensive Care's Ryan Bloomer shared of the joint effort. "This collaboration made sense because we weren't necessarily bringing anything separate; 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."
The Body added, "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."
The record is previewed today by "At Death's Door," which arrives alongside video artist, beat maker and camera designer skintape's music video, lovingly filmed inside an "abandoned chicken rendering plant." Watch it below, where you'll also find the album's tracklist.
The Body's Andrew Nolan shared of the track, "'At Death's Door' was mixed and road tested on a full dub sound system and subsequently remixed when we discovered the mastering was unable to work with both the low tuning on the guitars and the sub-bass at the same time in the loud parts of the song. Notable instruments used: a shopping cart, a push mower, a set of bed springs."
Was I Good Enough?:
1. Mistakes Have Been Made
2. Swallowed by the God
3. The Misunderstanding
4. At Death's Door
5. The Riderless Mount
6. Cartography of Suffering
7. Unwanted
8. Mandelbrot Anamnesis