Following the release of new album Lockstep Bloodwar earlier this year, Lee Buford (The Body) and Dylan Walker (Full of Hell) share the video for their Sightless Pit single “Resin on a Knife” featuring fellow heavy music innovator Midwife. Michael Bird’s hypnotic video provides a stark reflection of Sightless Pit’s unnerving and yet enticing soundscapes. Black and white footage of seemingly everyday urban scenes warp and blister to Buford and Walker’s fractured rhythms, Midwife’s signature ethereal vocals winding through the sprawl like gusts of icy wind.
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. Protean performances from a deeply eclectic cast of guests push each track to surprising sonic extremes – from Claire Rousay’s shimmering auto-tuned vocals and Gravediggaz/Stetsasonic rapper Frukwan’s dance hooks to YoshimiO’s warped voice and obliterating squalls from Elizabeth Colour Wheel’s Lane Shi Otayonii. 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.
