DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE SIGN TO BELLA UNION
SHARE NEW SINGLE “MONOLITHIC”
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR STARTS TODAY
NEW ALBUM EXPECTED IN 2025
Divide and Dissolve sign to Bella Union and share the brand new single “Monolithic” as their North American tour dates commence. A new album is expected in 2025.
Monolithic is a prayer for systems of liberation, freedom, Indigenous sovereignty, and for a Black future. This song is hope for the seemingly impossible and for things that have never been seen or experienced in many lifetimes. Where no memories have been created. – Takiaya Reed
Divide and Dissolve’s music is an acknowledgement of the dispossession that occurs due to colonial violence, it honours ancestors, opposes white supremacy and calls for indigenous sovereignty.
Takiaya Reed’s dense sound is overwhelmingly heavy; a dissonant pounding of percussion, guitars, piano, synths and saxophone, interwoven with passages of orchestral beauty that give a feeling of respite.
Divide and Dissolve have released four full-length albums to date; Basic (2017, DERO), Abomination (2018, DERO), Gas Lit (2021, Invada) – which was hailed Mary Anne Hobbs’ Album of the Year, and was complimented by the Gas Lit remix EP, including reworkings by Moor Mother, Chelsea Wolfe and Bearcat. Most recently the band released Systemic (2023, Invada), and plan to follow up with their Bella Union debut in 2025.
Monolithic single cover
Catch Divide and Dissolve supporting Systemic for the final time this year across North America – dates below.
Upcoming live dates:
9/12 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall Upstairs
9/13 Austin, TX @ The Ballroom
9/14 Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves
9/16 Albuquerque, NM @ Sister
9/17 Phoenix, AZ @ The Rebel Lounge
9/18 Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
9/19 West Hollywood, CA @ Troubadour
9/20 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of The Hill
9/21 – Sacramento, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post
9/23 Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
9/24 Seattle, WA @ The Sunset
9/26 Boise, ID @ Neurolux
9/27 Salt Lake City, UT @ The DLC
9/28 Englewood, CO @ Moes
10/1 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
10/2 Chicago, IL @ Cobra Lounge
10/3 Columbus, OH @ Rumba
10/4 New Kensington, PA @ Preserving Underground
10/5 Buffalo, NY @ Rec Room
10/6 Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace
10/9 Montreal, QC @ Bar le Ritz PDB
10/10 Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East Upstairs
10/11 Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere Zone One
10/12 Philadelphia, PA @ MilkBoy
10/15 Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
10/16 Richmond, VA @ Richmond Music Hall
10/17 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
10/18 Atlanta, GA @ The EARL
10/19 New Orleans, LA @ Siberia
“Like waking up from a vivid dream” – THE GUARDIAN
“Systemic gains a depth that’s rare for a largely instrumental record. After a while, it seems as potent and unshakable as the power structures it seeks to dismantle” – PITCHFORK
“‘If I am denied/ The simple gentleness/ Of existing.’ That’s Systemic’s methodology, in a way: pushing against the structural undercurrents suggested by the album title, through music that weighs, and ultimately defies, society’s stacked odds” – BANDCAMP (ALBUM OF THE DAY)
“A divining rod for the dispossessed” – METAL HAMMER
“Achieving such a visceral emotional affect through their music is remarkable” – LOUD AND QUIET
“For as bleak and harrowing as Systemic can be, there’s a strong sense of hope burning at its core” – THE QUIETUS
“The best avant garde record with true intention this year” – VEIL OF SOUND
“Divide And Dissolve work in this instrumental protest doom, full of emotional resonance and loud dirge riffs” – METAL STORM
“Pushing the limits of what an instrumental band can be, and what they can stand for” – ECHOES AND DUST
Number 1 Doom Metal album of the year – CVLT NATION