BAG sign to Phantom Limb and announce the album This House Is a Body, scheduled for May 22. “Moth Ball” is the new excerpt which comes with the official video. According to the press release, the track is steeped in disorienting sound design, as if drifting in from a delirious room next door. Its poetry arrives spliced and stuttered, never settling and always in motion. BAG draws from the outer edges of avant performance and the ecstatic spoken word of New York’s fertile early experimental scene, à la Laurie Anderson. As vocalist DeSchutter pushes into the rolling, roaring coda, traces of earlier morphemes re-emerge, skittering in crescendo through a haze of woozy string synthesis.
“This album functions as a floor plan, a house in itself, collecting and containing the ecosystems of multiple rooms,” write BAG aka Canadian artist & poet Jody DeSchutter and London producer Daniel Allison. “The roles we play can be defined by the room we are in; and it can be near impossible to tell what room we are in without looking from outside. This album maps out a number of rooms which hold such relations, memories, or experiences and builds them all into a single house, a single body.”
Listen below.
