News: MUSCLE & MARROW CONFRONT LOVE AND LOSS ON NEW SONG, “BEREFT BODY”‏

As they prepare for the release of their new album Love on May 27th (via The Flenser), Portland’s Muscle and Marrow have unveiled their ethereal and sorrowful third album single “Bereft Body” today on She Shreds along with a new interview with vocalist Kira Clark.

Formed in 2013 by Kira Clark (voice, guitar) and Keith McGraw (drums, sounds), Muscle and Marrow’s debut album The Human Cry was released in June, 2014 by Belief Mower Records. Its songs were arresting and hysterical, but also distinctly feminine. Pitchfork called it “gorgeous,” with Clark’s voice alternating between plaintive wails and guttural moans that soared over waves of pulsing drums and stifling guitars. Muscle and Marrow toured across the United States and in October, 2015, the duo posted up at Machines with Magnets (The Body, Lightning Bolt, Marissa Nadler, Deer Tick) in Providence, RI to record what was to become their sophomore album, Love. The band took their time in the studio and laid down seven tracks that delve further into deep electronic territories, but still incorporate the familiar droning guitars, ethereal vocals and tribal drums throughout. 

Along with themes of death and loss, Love touches on feminism and female archetypes, a topic that Kira Clark is very interested in. “It’s cathartic and alluring for me to delve into feminine madness because, of course, that character is inside me somewhere all of the time and to give her permission to surface in my art is powerful,” comments Clark.  This new collection of songs are their most powerful and fragile yet, bringing the band to the forefront of dark experimental music.

Love will be released May 27th and is up for pre-order now through Flenser.

Love - out 5/27/16 - Track Listing:

1.  My Fear

2.  Black Hole

3.  Womb

4.  The Drooling Mouth

5.  Sacs of Teeth

6.  Bereft Body

7.  Light