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Lockstep Bloodwar

by Sightless Pit

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A dope sick life strings you along. You won’t miss me when I’m gone. Love is a neural signal, nothing but an electric current running through organic mass. Insatiable hunger, painful desire. Serotonin floods the brain from birth A dopesick life strings you along and inevitably after so many days circumstance finds you and cuts the cord. A dopesick life strings you along, you won’t miss me when I’m gone.
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God has given this turning Earth My hands crack and bleed The bloodied wheel rolls across eternity Night has come at last to claim what is left Laid down, laid low Jason mask on my face Loced out and cocky On some bust a bitch teeth out like we playing hockey Get the fuck out my space I don’t like your energy I’m the queen of dark but you bitches weird as me I put that on my momma Hoes spiritual and damaged Meditate my ass off still I’m super ratchet I’m learning all my triggers while I’m hammered it’s a challenge They call me Devil’s daughter for a reason now they have it I swear to God. Do you believe in God?
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When survival is the only thing I care The only thing I hear is despair For how long I don’t know When a pile of shit is on As always I plant on The flowers to its tomb How can I try to stand on steadily on the floor of ignorant judgmental debate? Bullets from faces to passports.
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Careening trajectory, replicating forever As it plummets the layers peel away Gravity meets despair Crashing in a twisted heap into the mountain Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Across a yawning chasm stars blink out constellations undone heaven smears into a blur the world is a sightless pit If you wanna I can persuade Thieving zombies make you my slaves Chain and ashes kerosene and matches Screams no-one else can hear but me Aha! Voices tell me I’m listening I’m listening I’m listening Hold out the pain hard of breeze razor blades Hand grenades murderous dapping And king got real I’m listening Chest breathing heart beating the masses a victim I get them Inflict them tricking a victim Pace back and forth Forth and back with my axe Filth and my sweat pound my head Can’t forget in the act I’m disease there’s no hope Cause I’m draped and I’m blood soaked
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False Epiphany, empty jar. The low orbit of an unhinged sun. Endless expanse at your feet Serendipitous acts Turn the clock Worldly Ambivalence Looms overhead
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Spat forth on the pavement No reason revealed for a mission You live and die on the cross For your ideals and moral convictions Though I don’t know the date I know death is the fate Wont be broke and showing up late I’m throwing my gang and stacking my plate Up with the trash and crumbled up cash we scratch and we scrape They tossing my cell I sharpen my nails a mask on my face And if my babies make so much as a peep We leaving you dead open your head smoking out in the heat How did we end up living this way, Innocence given away It felt like a minute you looking away, your youth will get taken away The original plot is estranged, It got lost on the way To your bottom shelf casket and grave Vaguely distracted, enslaved Hunt by the moon, ether and debt keep me awake Ain’t slippin’ don’t trip, grip on my hip, it’s fashioned with tape And we be hunched from the pain, may this bullshit be in vain The hunger that painfully aches, if not for my brothers to gain
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Fell sword rending the empath shield Splinters rain into a flooded ditch Higher ground is held You suffocate on defeat and see nothing
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Across a yawning chasm the stars blink out constellations undone heaven smears into a blur the world is a sightless pit Celestine fabric woven of old dreams These are not my dreams This is not my voice Mother of an old world Grasping in the dark Holding to her clutch A string of dreams

about

Sightless Pit is the project of duo Lee Buford (The Body) and Dylan Walker (Full of Hell). Buford and Walker are born collaborators, known for their ability to subvert musical expectations, transcend genre and plunge headlong into the unknown. Their work with the likes of Thou, Uniform, Merzbow, and Nothing, taken together with their The Body & Full of Hell albums, have established each as singular voices and masterful alchemists of heavy music. The duo shares an affection for rhythm-based beat music, disparate electronic genres, dub, as well as darkly-hued atmospheric ambience. Lockstep Bloodwar exceeds expectations by stunningly combining the noise and confrontational posturing they are both well known for with pulsing and kaleidoscopic electronic samples, drum machines, and grizzled synths. Across the album, the two highly inventive musical omnivores are buoyed by an astounding menagerie of eclectic and celebrated collaborators.

Lockstep Bloodwar is a dub album composed by Buford and Walker with a sonic palette drawn from heavy music. The pair, enamored by the space and depth of dub, as well as the creative production techniques of the genre, wanted to employ its approach to harsh and foreboding sounds, a natural continuation in their explosions of boundaries. The duo built the sonics of each piece with distinct guest artists in mind, allowing them space to alter the direction of each track while maintaining a distinct, cohesive vision for the album. Midwife’s signature ethereal voice undulates suspended in time on “Resin on a Knife.” A protean performance from Elizabeth Colour Wheel’s Lane Shi Otayonii drives “Flower to Tomb” from obliterating squalls to anthemic rounds. An autotuned Claire Rousay expands the range of Sightless Pit’s dynamic compositions. The distinctive nature of their approach is nowhere more evident than when looking at the stark contrast of songs like “False Epiphany” and “Low Orbit” from the Industrial Hazard’s (aka Spencer Hazard of Full of Hell) noise-riddled onslaught to clubby dance hooks from Gravediggaz/Stetsasonic rapper Frukwan. This seamless mashup of disparate influences is also apparent on the exhilarating “Calcified Glass,” where YoshimiO’s (Boredoms/OOIOO) processed voice and drums spar with Walker’s howls before succumbing to defiant bars from Three 6 Mafia’s Gangsta Boo. Sightless Pit, with the help of engineer Seth Manchester, produce a strikingly seamless balance between entirely unexpected sonic combinations wrapped with high caliber collaborations to create an invigorating, inventive and undeniably listenable album.

An aura of brusque confrontation and grime is sheathed around Lockstep Bloodwar and its multiplicity of noises and raw energy. Buford’s signature rhythmic voice stretches into new complex patterns while retaining an unearthly punch, with gargantuan bass thuds and deft syncopations capable of transforming a song’s landscape in an instant. A spirit of malcontent and caged frustrations oozes from within each piece manifested in spiraling low end throbs and Walker’s pained wails. Walker describes the underlying worldview of the album: “Lockstep Bloodwar is the struggle to comprehend and come to terms with the fact that our lives are on a locked track, and the track is violent and painful. We have zero control over our lives on any kind of scale and even the simplest existence is a selfish and violent one.”

Buford and Walker are sonic inventors who, armed with an array of voices complimenting their own as Sightless Pit, push back against the locked track of life, presenting escape routes and musically giving voice and agency to all of us navigating an increasingly hostile world.

credits

released January 27, 2023

Produced at Machines With Magnets by Seth Manchester

Mastered by Matt Colton

Artwork by Godsteeth

Sightless Pit is Lee Buford and Dylan Walker
In alightment with:
Midwife
Lane Shi Otayonii
YoshimiO
Gangsta Boo
Crownovhornz
Foie Gras
claire rousay
Chrissy Wolpert
Frukwan
Industrial Hazard
Michael Berdan

Endless thanks to Seth Manchester for dragging us by our feet to the ends of the known Earth, Michael Berdan, Spencer Hazard, Iphigenia Douleur, Claire Rousay, Jordan Skipper, Frukwan, Lane Shi Otayonii, Tom Sexton, Gangsta Boo, YoshimiO, Madeline Johnston, Chrissy Wolpert, Melanie Feinberg, Emily Walker, Bettina Richards and the whole Thrill Jockey crew.

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Sightless Pit is the project of duo Lee Buford (The Body) and Dylan Walker (Full of Hell). Buford and Walker are born collaborators, known for their ability to subvert musical expectations, transcend genre and plunge headlong into the unknown. The duo shares an affection for rhythm-based beat music, disparate electronic genres, dub, as well as darkly-hued atmospheric ambience. ... more

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