“The Account” is the debut track from Dis Fig’s forthcoming album What To Make Of These Mortal Hands (out October 23 via Thrill Jockey on vinyl, digital download and streaming). It brings us in with minimal, organic industrial beats at times like the sound of a knock on the door of a forgotten industrial sector of town. Then the wind between aka Eldon Somers comes in with a poetic statement/manifesto about a struggle for an authentic life where one’s capacity for vulnerability, basic humanity and simply feeling alive and not simply surviving is assaulted regularly by the machinations of a dysfunctional society. And how one must cultivate those capacities for inherent goodness and virtue against attempts at eroding them because what is life without them? Dis Fig aka Felicia Chen comes in with vocals echoing in the darkness of the song’s underground midnight mood before progressing into impassioned declarations of being weary of cycles of destruction. The beats hit hard in accenting the emotional weight of the words and the expert flourishes of sound design lend the track the feel of a lived experience because we’ve all lived through and are living through a time of corrosive social and economic forces pressing down on all and everything. Listen to “The Account” on Spotify and follow Dis Fig on Instagram.
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