Gnod & MC Sissi - Inner Fucking Peace LP

RELEASES ON THE 25/10/24

Less than six months after Gnod rewired their sound for the umpteenth time, with the release of deliciously detailed deep listener "Spot Land", they’re back with another album and a whole new approach. "Inner Fucking Peace" comprises eight tracks for voice and electronics – varied in style but connected in feeling and recorded as a trio.

Chris Haslam and Paddy Shine, the two ever-present members in the Gnod lineup since their first stirrings in mid-2000s Salford, are completed by Portuguese vocalist MC Sissi. "Inner Fucking Peace" is the first time MC Sissi, or Cecilia de Fatima dos Santos, a very well known name in Portuguese experimental circles has recorded with Gnod.

From the minimalist tuned percussion of Stop, to the shuffling beats and spaced-out synth on Perde-Te Onde Quiseres, to Get Out and its ominous electronics and crashing industrial drums (combined with Sissi’s irate-sounding vocal, here Gnod are on a tip that compares to great Bristolian duo and recent touring partners Harrga), to the supremely chopped & screwed woodwind that’s central to Flute Theme, to Reprise’s hypnotic hand drum workout, to Tea & Eggs – ten minutes of reggaeton-gone-minimal-synth – to Olivia, named after Sissi’s niece and the track’s guest vocalist, to Cannela Crematoria closing us out and hitting a zenith of gloominess with some more industrial battery folded in…

This is a full on Gnod vibe shift that also makes total sense in their infamously extensive discography.

With this band enjoying hard-won freedom from release schedule tyranny, they – just like us – don’t know what’s next on the recording agenda, or if there’ll be more Gnod & MC Sissi collab albums, but this is an engrossing introduction to the partnership. In the short term, the trio will be playing some European shows in the autumn, including a slot at Utrecht festival Le Guess Who? in November.

About this product: this release is pressed on black vinyl.