Sumac

Aaron Turner

Nick Yacyshyn

Brian Cook

Thrill Jockey Records

The Unknown

GodCity Studios

Kurt Ballou

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Official press release:, a highly-lauded new band with the impressive lineup ofon guitar (ISIS, Old Man Gloom, Mamiffer),on drums (Baptists), andon bass (Russian Circles, These Arms Are Snakes, Botch), has announced its sophomore album due out June 10th on. Titled, this hour-long, double LP was tracked atin Anacortes, WA and mixed atin Salem, MA withand the resulting five songs are dense aggregates of rhythm, force, and vigor. The album's first single, "Rigid Man" (streaming now on YouTube), begins as a lurching epithet that finds the trio in a shadow boxing lockstep for the song's first half of pugilistic rhythm and noise, only to smash itself on the ground amidst a diabolical feedback whorl from Turner's guitar and to tear free from the rhythmic underbelly.Following their critically acclaimed 2015 debut(Profound Lore), the trio has elevated the songs' complexities with a greater entanglement of velocity, density, form, and function. These results are a testament to the tour-honed collective intuition and technical skills of drummer Yacyshyn and bassist Cook alongside Turner. The music ofrequires that each player be attuned to the dynamics and the tension within the multilateral structures, and the band invests in the recursive exercises of chaos and control.On, Sumac's choreographed structures parallel the internal and personal struggles with anxiety. They seek to identify the source, devise a course of action, and confront that condition at hand. Turner explains, "Much of it has to do with questioning fabricated structures of identity and what it means when those structures are destabilized by contact with the outside. That has been a unnerving process to undergo, but also fruitful in terms of discovering the path to individuation and realized connection with the self. Another facet of experience I'm working to convey is about living with the sustained presence of anxiety, and avoiding reliance on musical devices of cathartic release to provide escape from this condition." Sumac channels psychic distress into their rigorously algebraic maneuvers and syllable-crack dissonance. These are acts of honesty in the face of a particular conduction as well as acutely prescient designs of musical intensity that commands attention to all of this detail. The songwriting on What One Becomes is unparalleled, unhinged expressionism in all forms.will be available on double LP format pressed on virgin vinyl, packaged in a wide spine jacket printed on uncoated stock with custom debossed slipcase and free download card. A limited amount of copies have been pressed on clear vinyl and are exclusive to Thrill Jockey mailorder. Additionally, the album will be available on CD format packaged in a 4 panel mini-LP style gatefold jacket printed on uncoated stock with debossed cover and 6 panel fold-out insert. For pre-orders and more info, visit Thrill Jockey.track listing:1. Image of Control2. Rigid Man3. Clutch of Oblivion4. Blackout5. Will to Reach