COLLAPSING SCENERY W/ JAMES CHANCE – LET’S BURN DOWN THE CORNFIELD

COLLAPSING SCENERY is the meeting of two fertile and febrile minds, Don De Vore (Ink and Dagger/Icarus Line/Sick Feeling/Lilys) and Reggie Debris (alter ego for Maroon 5 bassist Mickey Madden). Together they straddle the gap between the music, art, film and politics, seamlessly moving between each with the same ease at which they traverse the globe, soaking up experiences and immersing themselves in different cultures. Since they formed in 2013 “under a pall of paranoia and disgust” they haven’t stopped moving. A conversation with them recalls stories of recently recording a ‘goth-dancehall’ track in Jamaica with Ninjaman, sailing their soundsystem into Britain for a series of shows, visiting occupied territories in Palestine on fact-finding missions, recording their debut album on a remote ranch in Texas and tracking vocals in a remote cave in Iceland – and that’s in the first five minutes. Their upcoming full-length Stress Positions is a forward-looking album with strong state-of-the-world lyrical content. In the tradition of so many defining electro duos – whether Suicide, Pet Shop Boys or Underworld – Collapsing Scenery’s architecture is entirely of their own creation. They’ve built their own world and live in it. All are welcome. Side A is a cover of Randy Newman’s “Let’s Burn Down the Cornfield” and the video is directed by Kansas Bowling and the b-side is a cover of the Modern Lovers “Modern World”