BODIES OF DIVINE INFINITE AND ETERNAL SPIRIT - All The Songs I Know About Fire

Naarm/Melbourne experimental queer post-punk outfit bodies of divine infinite and eternal
spirit (AKA bodies)'s debut album all the songs i know about fire has arrived, digitally and on
limited-edition 12" vinyl via Dinosaur City Records.
bodies is the project of daniel ward (vocals, guitar), Aldo Thomas (vocals, guitar, saxophone),
Ruby Lee (drums, drum machine, sampler), Ben Sendy-Smithers (bass) and a revolving door
of collaborators and performers. The group have operated as an improvisational project for
almost ten years, self-releasing almost as many demos, EPs and albums in that time. With a
proclivity for lengthy, intuitive cuts guided by a desire and search for transcendental states
of experience, the group have never played the same set live twice and believe in songs that
have the potential for both monotonous repetition and abrupt change.
Despite their sheer volume of music the group have shared over the years, bodies consider
all the songs i know about fire their first official album, recorded at a farm on a property run
only on solar power (unexpectedly), allowing them to record just one instrument at a time -
near the antithesis of how they would usually operate as a band. Each track on the album
serves as a prayer or meditation on a particular emotion (more accurately, a fire) and the
labelled ideas we have on sensorial states. all the songs i know about fire speaks to fire in a
sense not too dissimilar to William Blake's conception; fire as the inherent passion, creativity,
vibrancy, violence, eccentricity, desire and energy within all things. In other words, spirit; the
same vibrancy that moralistic bureaucracies seek to suppress (sometimes) in fear of the
world's, and hence the human's, infinite nature. It speaks from a pantheistic position,
focussing on spirit as the infinite potential of all things. Heaven as earth. Enlightenment as
consciousness. Through this, it is an album in devotion to the unending circle of time, and a
prayer for precious attention. An ode to temporality and impermanence and conviction alike.
ward adds, 'When writing the poems [for the album], I was interested in the philosophical link
between this framework of understanding the world and transgenderism; as both a shared
ecology of existence and a local active disruption of bureaucratic order, which is to say it is
unowned (punk) and owning it (punk). From here, each song acts as a prayer or ritual on
certain fires, speaking to desire, fear, love, death, time, mysteries.'
Highlighted today is focus single, 'song for dancing', a menacing cut sung by Aldo Thomas,
based around the lines "so many types of power, so much to dance for" - taken from a poem
of daniel ward's. A favourite of fans at bodies' electrifying live shows, frantic slaps of gristling
guitar are spiced with doomy bass and throbbing, textured drums which drive the track.
Singles 'song for blessing', song for fear' and 'song for new light' were released to acclaim
from Guardian Australia, Music Feeds, The Music, Purple Sneakers, Austin Town Hall, For the
Rabbits and Mixdown among others, with plays across FBi Radio, 2SER, 4ZZZ, 3RRR, Edge,
PBS and RTR among others, and adds to Apple Music's 'The New Rock' and 'New Music
Daily' playlists. all the songs i know about fire was AOTW on 4ZZZ and Edge Radio upon
release, featured on Bandcamp's New & Notable, plus added to 3RRR's Soundscape
(rotation), with album tracks played on RT 2 (Ireland), and more.
all the songs i know about fire is out now, digitally and on limited-edition 12" vinyl via
Dinosaur City Records.

Vinyl release of Bodies Of Divine Infinite And Eternal Spirit - All The Songs I Know About Fire. Released through Dinosaur City Records and available on LP.