Stream: Drab Majesty, ‘Long Division’

Kevin Bronson on May 21st, 2019

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The latest chapter in Drab Majesty’s darkly compelling journey into the post-punk underworld arrives July 12 with the new album “Modern Mirror.” And speaking of journeys, the duo of Deb Demure and Mona D ventured to Athens, Greece, for inspiration, basing the album on the myth of Ovid’s “Narcissus” (oh so relevant in these times) to arrive at a record, they say, on which each song tracks how the “listener’s own self-identity has become warped and dissociated through rapidly expanding technology, losing touch with the origins of their own personalities.”

Naturally, the album, their third, is as heavy on the synths and shoegazing as it is concept. Today, Drab Majesty unveiled the second single, “Long Division,” which essentially is a sad and gloomy relationship song about going it alone. “Long division / turned you into someone / that I had to run from,” Demure laments.

“‘Long Division’ points to an elusive impasse one may face in a personal relationship; a fundamental difference whether it be culturally, physically, or emotionally, that reaches a tipping point where both people involved have ultimately lost sight of their own identities through the futile act of trying to accommodate one another,” Demure explains further. “It’s about a crafted dissonance in an attempt to harmonize.”

The album, produced by Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv) and featuring appearances from Jasamine White-Gluz (No Joy) and Justin Meldal-Johnson (NIN, Beck, M83, Air), is coming out on Dais Records.

||| Stream: “Long Division”