Stress Positions

Collapsing Scenery is the meeting of two fertile and febrile minds, Don DeVore (Ink and Dagger, Lilys, The Icarus Line, Amazing Baby) and Reggie Debris. Together they straddle the gap between music, art, film and politics, seamlessly moving between each with the same ease at which they traverse the globe, soaking up experiences and immersing themselves in different cultures. Since they formed in 2013 “under a pall of paranoia and disgust” they haven’t stopped moving. They’ve collaborated with artists such as Beastie Boys producer / collaborator Money Mark, Jamaican dancehall legend Ninjaman, and no-wave pioneer James Chance. The band also has remixes out or on the way from Genesis P-Orridge (Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle), Jennifer Herrema (Royal Trux), Uniform, Youth Code, Brian DeGraw (Gang Gang Dance) and more. The band’s debut full-length Stress Positions is a glorious collision of futurist electro, glacial goth tones, techno, and post-punk recorded using analog electronics: samplers, step- sequencers, synths and drum machines. Aesthetically it recalls the early pioneering synth-punk of bands such as Human League, Screamers, and The Normal, when the most forward thinking punks looked to the twenty-first century. Dig deeper and it reveals an articulate, highly politicized collection that’s far from nostalgia for the recent past. Quite the opposite: Stress Positions is forward-facing with strong state-of-the-world lyrical content. Collapsing Scenery are entirely self- sufficient, sonic buccaneers sailing the seas with piratical intent. Stress Positions features appearances by DAM, Jammz, Tamaryn, Greg Fox, Z Berg, Pearl Charles, and Alex Greenwald.