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A new double album from IIVII

Posted by Loren on April 5, 2020

A new double album from IIVII
A new double album from IIVII

Josh Graham-led experimental ambent project IIVII is bac with a double album titled Grinding Teeth/Zero Sleep on April 10.

Consouling Sounds will release the new record, which was mastered by James Plotkin.

IIVII has shared a video for "Sing Your Death Song," shared below. The song features guests Jo Quail (cello), Dana Schechter (steel guitar, Swans), and Billy Graves (drums, A Storm of Light).

GRINDING TEETH
1. Crystalline Beasts
2. Disappearing Self
3. Bell Ringer
4. Sing Your Death Song
5. Coda. Ascending Ardor
6. Wrapped in Linen
7. Afterglow (Little Black and White Things)

Kim Thayil – Guitar on Disappearing Self
Sarah Pendleton – Violin on Crystalline Beasts and Afterglow
Jo Quail – Cello on Disappearing Self, Sing Your Death Song and Ascending Ardor
Dana Schechter – Lap steel guitar on Sing Your Death Song
Gregory Simons – Drums on Crystalline Beasts. Percussion on Bell Ringer and Afterglow. Keys on Afterglow.
Billy Graves – Drums on Sing Your Death Song
Shane Ocell – Drums on Afterglow
Benjamin Weinman – Guitar on Afterglow

ZERO SLEEP
1. All of Us Refugees
2. Mirrorlike
3. This Chrysalis
4. Sun and Solace
5. White Light
6. Beginning
7. Sleeping Dreaming
8. Coalescing Bodies
9. Bliss

A new double album from IIVII
A new double album from IIVII

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