Echoing its namesake, this hellish, slow burning tune is most definitely a dirge, defined by moments of crushing, metallic heaviness, punctuated by spine-chilling silences that feel like an icy wind rushing up from a great vacuous pit. Vocalist Barney Greenway howls over the grinding instrumental: “Wield your resentment, resentment always simmers.”

Greenway said of the mini-album, according to a press release: “You can certainly consider “Resentment Is Always…” as an extension of – or partner recording to – the “Throes…” album. We had long since wanted to put a mini-album out – in the spirit of the old days – and found we had enough quality tracks even after all the “Throes…” bonus tracks to do that. Hopefully this mini holds some nice twists in its own right for people, and certainly covering “People Pie” by Slab! made us really stretch ourselves, which feels great artistically. In the end, resentment is certainly seismic – it can trigger the complete erosion of humanity in many situations. That was the point that I really wanted to hammer home overall.”

Resentment Is Always Seismic will be available on 12” vinyl and can be purchased here. The vinyl version will be issued in the following variations:
Black LP – unlimited

Transp. Red LP – 1500x copies via CM Distro & Webshop Europe & all US outlets

Clear LP – 300x copies Nuclear Blast

Silver LP – 300x copies via EMP

Transp. Green LP – 500x copies via Napalm Death
The mini-album clocks in at just under thirty minutes, and features two covers. The full track list can be viewed down below.

Narcissus
Resentment Always Simmers
By Proxy
People Pie [SLAB! cover]
Man Bites Dogged
Slaver Through a Repeat Performance
Don’t Need It [Bad Brains cover]
Resentment is Always Seismic (Dark Sky Burial Dirge)

In addition to this new album, the band have added some new dates to their upcoming worldwide tour, including some UK dates. You can purchase tickets here, and you can view the full list of UK dates for 2022 below.

04/03/2022- Boom Leeds- Leeds
05/03- Boom Leeds- Leeds (SOLD OUT)
11/03- Academy 2- Oxford
12/03- The Tivoli- Buckley
18/03- The Underworld- London
19/03- Academy 2- Liverpool
25/03- The Foundry- Torquay
26/03- The Craufurd Arms- Wolverton

Kicking things off with an exclusive interview, GRACEY spoke about her career, which began with her writing songs for other artists. She said, “I basically wanted to wait until I knew what I wanted to say, and the exact music I wanted to put out. It took until last year putting out my first single until I knew I was ready – it happened organically.”

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Friends! Tune in at 10pm tonight to listen to my live session and chat with the wonderful @jackxsaunders for @bbcradio1 Future Artists! Which songs do you think I’ll be playing?

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Her first acoustic track of the evening was ‘Like That’, a stripped back version of the single including acoustic guitar and percussion to liven up the set. Originally released in August, the song features fellow artist Alexander23. GRACEY followed this up with her latest release ‘Don’t’, released in October as an electro-pop song which was compared by Saunders to the music of Charli XCX. The songwriter herself said that she loves up-tempo sad songs, and that “it is lyrically sad but it is, to me, very empowering and very strong. It’s everything I should have said.”

To bring the session to a close, she mentioned a few of her favourite artists and influences, which included Imogen Heap and Francis and the Lights. Coming this Friday 13th November is GRACEY’s mini album ‘The Art of Closure’, which will be her longest release to date. Sharing her first single just last year, GRACEY made her breakthrough in 2020 with the single ‘Don’t Need Love’ in collaboration with 220 Kid as it reached number 9 on the UK Singles Chart. Prior to this she had written songs for artists such as Sub Focus, Lorde, and Kylie Minogue, and now she has built her own fanbase and career as an artist.

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SO… to celebrate the release of my mini album ‘The Art of Closure’ this Friday, I’m giving away 5 signed copies of the CD & cassette! To be in with a chance, enter your details on the link in my bio – the winners announced next Friday! Also make sure you subscribe to ‘Gracey’s World’ (my weekly mailer blog) as there are going to be some exclusives coming your way very soon LOVE YOU 

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