Divide And Dissolve announce new album ‘Systemic’

April 14, 2023 James Weaver

DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE have announced a new album!

Titled Systemic, the upcoming album from the multidimensional duo is the follow-up to 2021’s Gas Lit, which is scheduled to be released in June, via Invada.

The upcoming album intends to examine the systems that intrinsically bind us and calls for a system that facilitates life for everyone. It’s a message that fits with the band’s core intention: to make music that honours their ancestors and Indigenous land, to oppose white supremacy, and to work towards a future of Black and Indigenous liberation.

Saxophonist and guitarist Takiaya Reed comments, “this music is an acknowledgement of the dispossession that occurs due to colonial violence. The goal of the colonial project is to separate Indigenous people from their culture, their life force, their community and their traditions. The album is in direct opposition to this.”

Systemic was recorded as a duo and Takiaya says this new album is a continuation of Gas Lit. “Because of what was built with Gas Lit, Systemic is able to express itself.” In Systemic, DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE reflect deeply on the systems that perpetuate colonial violence. The album reflects on systems that facilitate a better future. “The album is a prayer to our ancestors,” Takiaya says. “A prayer for land to be given back to Indigenous people, and for future generations to be free from this cycle of violence.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Blood Quantum.

Watch the official music video for Blood Quantum here: