Out on January thirty first by way of The Leaf Label, Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) maintains the sleaze ‘n’ 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. Preserve hydrated from no matter supply is obtainable. Be your personal pleasure centre. Vol. II is a veritable choice field of booty bumps and unlawful highs made at evening for the evening and past. That is music that takes pleasure in its stroll of disgrace.
A supergroup of kinds – Fats White Household’s Lias Saoudi, Trashmouth Data’ Luke and Liam Might, and Quinn Whalley of Paranoid London and Warmduscher – Decius have travelled the earth liberating folks from banality because the launch of Decius Vol. I. They’ve revealed to all these they’ve encountered simply what was lacking of their lives: pump with out borders, pump with out purpose – absolute pump.
”My mate Rob says he can now not make love with out first sticking Vol. I on the stereo. Plenty of the lads down Berghain have been complaining of an analogous downside since we performed there,” explains Meat Divine, aka Lias Saoudi. ”When you’ve 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.”
For these acolytes, then, excellent news – 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 desires and able to engulf.
Decius dwell units at Berghain’s nineteenth birthday celebrations, Block 9’s NYC Downlow at Glastonbury and Opium Membership in Vilnius have set pulses racing, they usually rely 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 at Material, London on twentieth February 2025. Tickets HERE
Now they provide up Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience). It throbs with an nearly unattainable sense of potential and expands on the lexicon of molten want. Vol. II is the artwork of seduction in damp rooms painted black. Preserve hydrated from no matter supply is obtainable. Be your personal pleasure centre. Vol. II is a veritable choice field of booty bumps and unlawful highs made at evening for the evening and past. That is music that takes pleasure in its stroll of disgrace.
The sound has moved into new territories, with tastes of home, disco and techno, all with an underlying base notice of acid on tracks such because the slippery evening 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 by way of Deptford, and first single, Strolling In The Warmth, struts like a sunburnt and sexy Kraftwerk, and Gent whiffs of the purest uncut ’88 acid.
New believers queue up to participate within the bacchanal disco revelation. Some who recalled what it was wish 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 by way of erotic dissonance. A post-Covid set that desires connection come what could, with Saoudi performing as each Pied Piper and prepared self-sacrifice, guiding them by the temptations they’d beforehand been sheltered from.
”There have been moments on stage when the division between all issues ceases,” Lias explains. ”When the one aspect binding something collectively is pure, unadulterated, fanatical ardour. It’s at moments like these you want to attain to your butterfly web to try to harvest the magic for later.”
Decius Vol. II has them ”additional entrenched in delusions of conquest and grandeur” states Liam Might. Fittingly for a flip named after a Roman emperor, the final days of that empire full of lust, extra and a farewell to order and normality, Decius’ gladiatorial efforts are the twenty first century’s equal. Actually twiddling with their knobs whereas the Earth burns and slides into dystopia.
”You ever see that present Civilisation with Kenneth Clarke?” asks Saoudi. ”It particulars the arc of western civilisation from the traditional world onwards, up till the ‘60s when the present was made. For me, this has been the principal supply of inspiration. The fantastic grain of struggling that lurks behind each civilised factor. Therefore the album’s subtitle Splendour & Obedience.”
Decius Vol. II is the magick and fervour of digital physique music with unexplained rashes and sore orifices. It’s all there for the taking. In the end Decius loves you. They know what you need. And 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) will probably 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 obtainable on CD and digital, with a further album of prolonged variations and instrumentals obtainable on obtain providers.
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