Just before the release of their highly anticipated third album Systemic, classical/doom duo Divide and Dissolve share atmospheric opening track 'Want'. Having already heard 'Indignation' and 'Blood Quantumn' the new album (produced by Ruban Nielson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra) is shaping up to be a heady blend of eerie orchestral passages and monolithic riffs, beautiful and fearsome music that though wordless comes from a deeply political and decolonial position. “‘Want’ is a deep dive into longing within a decolonial framework,” tells saxophonist / guitarist Takiaya Reed. “We can want many things, but how will it happen? What is necessary, what systems must be broken in order for people to live?” The track comes with hypnotic looping visuals by frequent collaborator Sepi Mashiahof, here she describes the symbolism in the visuals and how they relate to the music, "‘Want’ is the song that introduces us to ‘Systemic’, the concept for the video emulates this kind of infant yearning for worlds beyond our current heartbreaking reality. There are so many beautiful textures above our heads that are inaccessible (as there are so many desired modes of existence that are inaccessible), and the rotation emphasizes the limbo of what that desire feels like. Trying to reach something, but succumbing to the loop of failure. Still, that infant yearning is persistent, and that compliments the need for hope and cements the importance of idealism as essential tools in our greater struggles for liberation.” Systemic will be released on June 30th on Invada records. -Toby Evans-Jesra