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Body/Head

Body/Head, the duo of Kim Gordon (CKM, Sonic Youth, Free Kitten, etc.) and guitarist Bill Nace (X.O.4, Vampire Belt, Ceylon Mange, etc), will release their second studio album, 'The Switch', on July 13 on Matador Records. Their debut album together as Body/Head, 'Coming Apart', from 2013, was more of a rock record—heavy, emotional, cathartic, spellwork in shades of black and grey. 'The Switch' is their second studio full-length, and it finds the duo working with a more subtle palette, refining their ideas and identity. Some of it was sketched out live (if you’ve not had the fortune of seeing them in that natural environment yet, see 2016’s improvisational document 'No Waves'), but much of it happened purely in the moment. On 'The Switch', their vision and focus feel truly unified. If 'Coming Apart ' was dark magic, 'The Switch' works with light, though it never forgets that these approaches are two sides of the same coin, and that binaries—black/white, near/far, emotion/analysis, body/head—are made to be broken open, and that the truth of things is in the energy between.
Release date: 13th July. Tracklisting: Last Time You Don’t Need In The Dark Room Change My Brain Reverse Hard

Body/Head The Switch

The Switch

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Body/Head, the duo of Kim Gordon (CKM, Sonic Youth, Free Kitten, etc.) and Bill Nace (X.O.4, Vampire Belt, Ceylon Mange, etc.) will be releasing their new record, No Waves, on November 11th.  The live record documents a single show (Big Ears Festival in 2014 in Knoxville, TN) from a band renowned for clearing pathways of possibility using great waves of amplification and voice. 
Body/Head's debut release for Matador Records, Coming Apart, was arguably the heaviest record of 2013 and received with open arms and blown minds across the world. The fact that a record steeped so heavily in non-traditional structures and improvisation could touch so many people was not a surprise to anyone who had seen Body/Head in a live setting. No Waves captures that raw improvisation and harnesses the power into a listening experience of pure, unmediated intensity. 
The fire of improvisation is not the fire of the elements. Body/Head deal in electricity, but they exist in the fire of improvisation. As such, they need to play live to sustain themselves. Call it the ontological necessity of a band working heavily with the flow of power (power flowing back and forth between the members of the band, flowing through band and audience, flowing through the mental and material planes, etc). No Waves, a document of this flow of power, offers a different side of the band they revealed on Coming Apart. Yes, some of the songs cross over in undefinable ways, but the live foundation ofNo Waves brings all new energies to the fore. Everything reveals itself in the now. 
One of the pleasures of a live record is a chance for the listener to feel the music develop and unfold from a previously known departure point. This experience is magnified with Body/Head due to the improvisatory basis of the band, which encourages new sounds and modes of communication with every show. We hear new vocal melodies developing, new attacks on strings, new clusters of intervals. It is the sound of sound evolving. Listening to No Waves, one can't help feel that despite the title of their previous record, Coming Apart, we're actually hearing Kim and Bill become one. Guitars and vocals flow into each as if played by a single creature. The sound of their evolution causes audiomorphic sensations. Two guitars or eight? Four hands or one? One voice or two?
The live record also plays with orientation via it's concentration on communication. Which way are you listening to it?  Listen once and hear certain forms.  Listen to the same part again and you may perceive new forms, like overhearing a game of telephone. With No Waves, Body/Head adds a document to the library of classic live records that never exhaust themselves no matter how many times they are listened to. Musicians and groups such as Albert Ayler, High Rise, Van Morrison, Rudolph Grey,  Bill Evens, Swans, etc. knew the unique possibilities of a live record that invites participation from the listener. It's the beauty of a path cleared at the moment it was recorded and for every moment to come. It's Body/Head doing what they do best - making the listener smile as they participate with the band in joyous, creative time. The Élan vital never rocked so hard. 
- Ben Chasny

Body/Head No Waves (Vinyl) CD

No Waves (Vinyl) CD

Body/Head Coming Apart

Coming Apart

Body/Head Show Is Over (Vinyl)

Track List 
 [Disc 1]
<ol class="track-list">
<li class="track">Last Time 07:52</li>
<li class="track">You Don't Need 05:26</li>
<li class="track">In The Dark Room 04:38</li>
</ol>
[Disc 2]
<ol class="track-list">
<li class="track">Change My Brain 10:41</li>
<li class="track">Reverse Hard 10:05</li>
</ol>
 
Protection 
 Each record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve.
 

 
Packaging 
 All items are shipped brand-new and unopened in original packaging. Every record is shipped in original factory-applied shrink wrap and has never been touched by human hands.

Body/Head SWITCH Vinyl Record

Track List 
<ol class="track-list">
<li class="track">Sugar Water 7:47</li>
<li class="track">The Show Is Over 8:31</li>
<li class="track">Abstract/Actress 23:39</li>
</ol>
 
Protection 
 Each record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve.
 

 
Packaging 
 All items are shipped brand-new and unopened in original packaging. Every record is shipped in original factory-applied shrink wrap and has never been touched by human hands.

Body/Head NO WAVES Vinyl Record

Track List 
<ol class="track-list">
<li class="track">Abstracta</li>
<li class="track">Murderessa</li>
<li class="track">Last Mistress</li>
<li class="track">Actress</li>
<li class="track">Twitter</li>
<li class="track">Can't Help Youc</li>
<li class="track">Aintc</li>
<li class="track">Blackd</li>
<li class="track">Frontal</li>
</ol>
 
Protection 
 Each record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve.
 

 
Packaging 
 All items are shipped brand-new and unopened in original packaging. Every record is shipped in original factory-applied shrink wrap and has never been touched by human hands.

Body/Head COMING APART Vinyl Record

Track List 
<ol class="track-list">
<li class="track">Sugar Water - Body/Head</li>
<li class="track">The Show Is Over - Body/Head</li>
<li class="track">Abstract/Actress - Body/Head</li>
</ol>
 This is a new, unopened CD in its original packaging.

Body/Head NO WAVES CD

Track List 
<ol class="track-list">
<li class="track">Abstracta</li>
<li class="track">Murderessa</li>
<li class="track">Last Mistress</li>
<li class="track">Actress</li>
<li class="track">Twitter</li>
<li class="track">Can't Help Youc</li>
<li class="track">Aintc</li>
<li class="track">Blackd</li>
<li class="track">Frontal</li>
</ol>
 This is a new, unopened CD in its original packaging.

Body/Head COMING APART CD

Track List 
<ol class="track-list">
<li class="track">Show Is Over</li>
<li class="track">Canyon</li>
</ol>
 
Protection 
 Each record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve.
 

 
Packaging 
 All items are shipped brand-new and unopened in original packaging. Every record is shipped in original factory-applied shrink wrap and has never been touched by human hands.

Body/Head SHOW IS OVER / THE CANYON Vinyl Record

This is a new, unopened CD in its original packaging.

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