Out on January thirty first through The Leaf Label, Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) maintains the sleaze ānā sweat acid home grit of their first LP, however this time tracks are extra song-based, with forays into home, disco and techno. Pre-order HERE.
Vol. II is the artwork of seduction in damp rooms painted black. Hold hydrated from no matter supply is on the market. Be your personal pleasure centre. Vol. II is a veritable choice field of booty bumps and unlawful highs made at night time for the night time and past. That is music that takes delight in its stroll of disgrace.
A supergroup of types ā Fats White Householdās Lias Saoudi, Trashmouth Dataā Luke and Liam Could, and Quinn Whalley of Paranoid London and Warmduscher ā Decius have travelled the earth liberating individuals from banality for the reason that launch of Decius Vol. I. Theyāve revealed to all these theyāve encountered simply what was lacking of their lives: pump with out borders, pump with out cause ā absolute pump.
āMy mate Rob says he can not make love with out first sticking Vol. I on the stereo. A whole lot of the lads down Berghain have been complaining of the same drawback since we performed there,ā explains Meat Divine, aka Lias Saoudi. āWhen youāve had Vol. I, you want Vol. II. With Vol. II, we hope to additional encourage and lengthen this type of determined dependence in our acolytes.ā
For these acolytes, then, excellent news ā journey and vinegar strokes await. And for all these nonetheless but to stay their tongue out and style Decius, Vol. II glows menacingly and enticingly, haunting their goals and able to engulf.
Decius stay units at Berghainās nineteenth birthday celebrations, Block 9ās NYC Downlow at Glastonbury and Opium Membership in Vilnius have set pulses racing, and so they depend the likes of Dixon, 2manydjs, Honey Dijon, Mochakk, Or:La, Iggy Pop and Depeche Mode as followers.
They not too long ago offered out a present at Peckham Audio, South London however have introduced a headline present atĀ Material, LondonĀ onĀ twentieth February 2025. Tickets HERE
Now they provide up Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience). It throbs with an nearly not possible sense of potential and expands on the lexicon of molten want. Vol. II is the artwork of seduction in damp rooms painted black. Hold hydrated from no matter supply is on the market. Be your personal pleasure centre. Vol. II is a veritable choice field of booty bumps and unlawful highs made at night time for the night time and past. That is music that takes delight in its stroll of disgrace.
The sound has moved into new territories, with tastes of home, disco and techno, all with an underlying base observe of acid on tracks such because the slippery night time cruise depth of Delivery of A Smirk, the place Colonel Abrams will get his nipples tortured, Queen of 14th St is all watersports and Cybotron drive from Detroit through Deptford, and first single, Strolling In The Warmth, struts like a sunburnt and attractive Kraftwerk, and Gent whiffs of the purest uncut ā88 acid.
New believers queue up to participate within the bacchanal disco revelation. Some who recalled what it was prefer to lose their thoughts, physique and soul to a music that tugged away at them within the shadows half a lifetime in the past, alongside a number of youthful followers, drawn into an online of joyous degradation, of enchantment through erotic dissonance. A post-Covid set that wishes connection come what might, with Saoudi performing as each Pied Piper and keen self-sacrifice, guiding them by means of the temptations theyād beforehand been sheltered from.
āThere have been moments on stage when the division between all issues ceases,ā Lias explains. āWhen the one component binding something collectively is pure, unadulterated, fanatical ardour. Itās at moments like these you could attain to your butterfly web to attempt to harvest the magic for later.ā
Decius Vol. II has them āadditional entrenched in delusions of conquest and grandeurā states Liam Could. Fittingly for a flip named after a Roman emperor, the final days of that empire crammed with lust, extra and a farewell to order and normality, Deciusā gladiatorial efforts are the twenty first centuryās equal. Actually fidgeting with their knobs whereas the Earth burns and slides into dystopia.
āYou ever see that present Civilisation with Kenneth Clarke?ā asks Saoudi. āIt particulars the arc of western civilisation from the traditional world onwards, up till the ā60s when the present was made. For me, this has been the principal supply of inspiration. The nice grain of struggling that lurks behind each civilised factor. Therefore the albumās subtitle Splendour & Obedience.ā
Decius Vol. II is the magick and keenness of digital physique music with unexplained rashes and sore orifices. Itās all there for the taking. In the end Decius loves you. They know what you need. And you realize that you really want it too.
Try the video to new single Strolling In The Warmth beneath.
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Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) can be launched in three double vinyl editions, all in gatefold sleeves with paintings by Peter Harris. Black, restricted indies-only Neptune Turquoise vinyl, and a restricted version of Assarius Copper vinyl (300 copies) are unique to Tough Commerce and Bandcamp. The album can even be out there on CD and digital, with a further album of prolonged variations and instrumentals out there on obtain providers.
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