Stream: Collapsing Scenery, ‘Gold Rush’

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Collapsing Scenery (Photo by Kate Bowman)

Collapsing Scenery — Don De Vore and Reggie Debris — return March 10 with a new album, “A Desert Called Peace.” It’s the follow-up to last year’s surprise EP, “Acid Casual,” and their daunting, dynamic 2021 full-length, “Stress Positions.”

As enthralling as they are impossible to pigeonhole, the experimental duo mash music, visual art and politics. Stylistically, their new album is said to touch on dancehall, techno, post-punk, Britpop, darkwave, industrial, free jazz and funk/soul, and it features appearances from Avalon, L’espiral, RugiRugz and reggae legend Tippa Lee. Whatever the genre, their recordings reflect both the global chaos they witness and personal neuroses they feel in fittingly jarring ways.

The duo have chosen to introduce “A Desert Called Peace” with the album’s closing track, “Gold Rush.”

Of the song, the band says, “‘Gold Rush’ approaches the climate and biodiversity crises with gimlet-eyed nihilism. It’s a cri de coeur of apocalyptic joy, borne of hopelessness.”

||| Stream: “Gold Rush”

||| Previously: “You Already Know,” “Do You Feel That Way Too? A Tribute to The Sound,” “The Gray Cardinal,” “Bush Mama Blues,” “Straight World Problems”