DIES: Scalene
August 10th, 2011 § 9 Comments
Scalene, the new album from Dies is coming this fall.
Josh Dies breaks the 4-year silence on his solo career with Scalene, the follow-up to 2007′s Aesthetics Of Violence. It seems the trademark genre-shifting that has marked Dies day-job band Showbread has a spill-over effect into his solo efforts: The second Dies record does not sound like the first.
Dies has traded its Skinny Puppy and KMFDM influences in for a dose of New Order and Depeche Mode. The crunchy, industrial edge that was the centerpiece of the first Dies effort is now a sort of delightfully ugly stain on what seems to be an otherwise poppy, new wave sort of record.
Scalene might not sound quite like heavy machinery breaking, but it does answer an age old question: “What would it sound like if Phil Collins collaborated with Trent Reznor?” You might not have been asking that question, but you’ll still want to hear the answer.
Will there be another free download? Because I enjoy those a lot.
So, are we just not counting Talons?
I’m gonna love this.. I freakin love genesis depeche mode and NIN.. Now this might sound demanding but when’s ur book coming out? I love all ur work. Tootles
this is so exiting, i have yet to purchase everything Showbread and josh dies has ever published and released but this looks so awesome, God bless!
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I wonder if anyone noticed the cover art’s relevance to the title…thanks for being so inspiring, Josh. Thanks for showing me God’s love, even if you didn’t know it.
good eye, friend. all the critter’s are confined to scalene triangles up in this piece. fun to draw, too.
actually talons was an ep so it really doesn’t count and neither does the reissue cause it was a bunch of extra covers and reimaginings.
I’m really looking forward to this huge showbread and dies fan
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