So, each Single of the Week during the pandemic seems to be tapping into a very specific place of my own emotional well being during this whole nonsense. This week’s comes from probably the heaviest band to ever sign to Saddle Creek, Divide & Dissolve. The song “TFW” is a slow, heavy dirge that keeps building and building until the weight of it feels like it’s crushing your bones. There is never relief. Just stacks and stacks of thick, heavy guitars and heavy, pounding drums. You know, just like COVID. It’s all pain and pressure, and there is no relief in sight, and no way out to feel human, and everything you can think of doing will almost definitely cause you or a loved one to get horrifically ill and either die or have to live with painful disabilities for the rest of their lives. It’s a fucker.
“TFW” is streaming on all the usual places now. A physical 7″, with the b-side “8VA” drops August 7th. You can preorder that here!